Color

#a9b116

#a9b116
hex#a9b116
rgbrgb(169, 177, 22)
hslhsl(63, 78%, 39%)
oklchoklch(0.73 0.158 113)
Closest name: Citrus (#9fb70a)Relative luminance 0.3994

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#1e16b1

#b16b16 · #5cb116

#16a9b1 · #b116a9

Split-complementary

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#165cb1 · #6b16b1

#16b16b · #1e16b1 · #b1165c

Contrast

#a9b116 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.34:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #757b0f as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #575b0b as the text (7.23:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.65:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1f1f1f (7.05:1)
Aaon black
8.99:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a9b116 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 #a9b116
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

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

analyze #a9b116 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a9b116-b9bea2-4e8ddf-262d1f-f1eee9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md