Color

#a8be79

#a8be79
hex#a8be79
rgbrgb(168, 190, 121)
hslhsl(79, 35%, 61%)
oklchoklch(0.768 0.095 123)
Closest name: Around the Gills (#a1b670)Relative luminance 0.4653

Colors that go with #a8be79

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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8f79be

#beb279 · #86be79

#79a8be · #be79a8

Split-complementary

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#7986be · #b279be

#79beb2 · #8f79be · #be7986

Contrast

#a8be79 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.04:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #687c3c as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #4e5d2d as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #474747 (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #292929 (7.14:1)
Aaon black
10.31:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a8be79 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 #a8be79
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 #a8be79 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a8be79-b2bea2-4e66df-232d1f-f1f0e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md