Color
#a9ca68
#a9ca68rgb(169, 202, 104)hsl(80, 48%, 60%)oklch(0.793 0.131 124.6)Colors that go with #a9ca68
Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and Lilac 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 #a9ca68: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
triadicshippedDeep Sky Blue completes a triad with #a9ca68 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #a9ca68 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including Minecraft's brand system and League of Legends's brand system put Blue beside #a9ca68, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #a9ca68: 4 real palettes, including Coastal and Diner, as the lead colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Forest Floor put Champagne beside #a9ca68, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #a9ca68 in 5 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Undergrowth, as the supporting colour.
Dark Orange #ff8c00
shippedDark Orange shows up next to #a9ca68 in 4 real palettes, including Citrus Grove and Ahrefs's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #a9ca68
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a9ca68 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.85:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.34:1 | 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 #a9ca68 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 #a9ca68 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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