Color
#a9d397
#a9d397rgb(169, 211, 151)hsl(102, 41%, 71%)oklch(0.822 0.093 136.5)Colors that go with #a9d397
Charcoal, Lilac and Cadet 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #a9d397: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #a9d397 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #a9d397: 4 real palettes, including Coastal and Clean Beauty, as the lead colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Midnight Luxe put Champagne beside #a9d397, as that palette's text colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #a9d397 in 6 real palettes, including Tiffany & Co.'s brand system and Wise's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #a9d397 in 5 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Forest Floor, as the lead colour.
Eggplant #614051
shippedEggplant shows up next to #a9d397 in 4 real palettes, including Sepia Mono and Velvet, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #a9d397 in 5 real palettes, including Canopy and Desert Road, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #a9d397
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a9d397 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.69:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 12.45:1 | 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 #a9d397 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Fonts for this mood
#a9d397 reads as light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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 #a9d397 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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