Color
#a9e486
#a9e486rgb(169, 228, 134)hsl(98, 64%, 71%)oklch(0.857 0.138 134.7)Colors that go with #a9e486
Charcoal, Sky Blue and Plum 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 #a9e486: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Sky Blue #87ceeb
triadicshippedSky Blue completes a triad with #a9e486 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Plum #dda0dd
complementaryshippedPlum sits directly opposite #a9e486 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Bumble's brand system and Binance's brand system put Blue beside #a9e486, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #a9e486 in 8 real palettes, including Wise's brand system and Diner, as the accent.
Gold #ffd700
shippedGold shows up next to #a9e486 in 5 real palettes, including Prime Video's brand system and Star Wars's brand system, as the lead colour.
Red #ff0000
shippedRed is paired with #a9e486 in 5 real palettes, including Wise's brand system and Gatorade's brand system, as the lead colour.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #a9e486: 4 real palettes, including Scale AI's brand system and Polaroid, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #a9e486
Tints & shades
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Contrast
| #a9e486 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.49:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 14.13:1 | 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 #a9e486 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
#a9e486 reads as vivid, 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 #a9e486 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/a9e486-a9bea2-644edf-1f2d20-f0f1e9?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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