Color

#a8bb9b

#a8bb9b
hex#a8bb9b
rgbrgb(168, 187, 155)
hslhsl(96, 19%, 67%)
oklchoklch(0.769 0.049 132.6)
Closest name: Norway (#a4b88f)Relative luminance 0.4623

Colors that go with #a8bb9b

Charcoal, Lilac and Blue 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.

Real palettes that use #a8bb9b

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

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#ae9bbb

#b8bb9b · #9bbb9e

#9ba8bb · #bb9ba8

Split-complementary

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#9e9bbb · #bb9bb8

#9bb8bb · #ae9bbb · #bb9e9b

Contrast

#a8bb9b as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.05:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #657c55 as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #4c5e40 as the text (7.04:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #474747 (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #292929 (7.1:1)
Aaon black
10.25:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a8bb9b as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a8bb9b
live endpoint

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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #a8bb9b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a8bb9b-aabea2-5f4edf-1f2d20-f0f1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md