Color
#abab12
#abab12rgb(171, 171, 18)hsl(60, 81%, 37%)oklch(0.718 0.153 109.7)Colors that go with #abab12
Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and 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 #abab12: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
complementaryshippedCornflower Blue sits directly opposite #abab12 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 Minecraft's brand system and League of Legends's brand system put Blue beside #abab12, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Midnight Luxe put Champagne beside #abab12, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #abab12 in 5 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Undergrowth, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #abab12: 5 real palettes, including Open House and Guinness's brand system, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #abab12 in 4 real palettes, including Fireside and Pine & Birch, as the supporting colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #abab12 in 4 real palettes, including Chevrolet's brand system and Disney's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #abab12
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #abab12 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.45:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.57:1 | 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 #abab12 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 #abab12 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/abab12-bbbea2-4e94df-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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