Olive Grove
Open in tool →Olive and straw with a rust accent — Mediterranean and unhurried; good for food, wine and hospitality.
Color
#a9aa74
#a9aa74
hex
#a9aa74rgb
rgb(169, 170, 116)hsl
hsl(61, 24%, 56%)oklch
oklch(0.724 0.073 109)Closest name: Cardamom (#aaaa77)Relative luminance 0.3845
Colors that go with #a9aa74
Charcoal, Lilac and Blush Pink 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #a9aa74: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #a9aa74 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Garden Wedding and Estate put Blush Pink beside #a9aa74, as the supporting colour.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
triadicshippedCadet Blue completes a triad with #a9aa74 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Darkroom put Champagne beside #a9aa74, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #a9aa74: 6 real palettes, including Bramble and Bakery, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #a9aa74 in 4 real palettes, including Cartier's brand system and Retro Pop, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #a9aa74 in 5 real palettes, including Olive Grove and Forest Floor, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #a9aa74
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a9aa74 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.42:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.69:1 | 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 #a9aa74 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
mcpConnect your agent — build around #a9aa74
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #a9aa74 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/a9aa74-babea2-4e92df-272d1f-f1ede9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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