Color
#a8bb30
#a8bb30rgb(168, 187, 48)hsl(68, 59%, 46%)oklch(0.753 0.158 117.3)Colors that go with #a8bb30
Blue, Cornflower Blue and Dark Olive Green lead the list. Each partner is a real named colour with the reason it works — a wheel relationship, a neutral that carries it, or a pairing lifted from a palette or brand system that actually shipped — and every pair opens in the palette tool.
Blue #0000ff
shippedBlue is paired with #a8bb30 in 5 real palettes, including League of Legends's brand system and Binance's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
split-complementshippedCornflower Blue is a split-complement of #a8bb30: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green is paired with #a8bb30 in 4 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Undergrowth, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #a8bb30 in 4 real palettes, including Open House and Wikipedia's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedSage Green is paired with #a8bb30 in 4 real palettes, including Scale AI's brand system and Garden Wedding, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #a8bb30 in 14 real palettes, including Citrus Grove and Meadow, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Plum #dda0dd
complementaryPlum sits directly opposite #a8bb30 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #a8bb30: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #a8bb30
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a8bb30 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.14:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.82:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a8bb30 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — direct_palette, edit_direction, check_palette, check_contrast — read-only, no key. Every direction it proposes comes with a /colors/d/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back, and the agent edits rather than re-rolls.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #a8bb30 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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