Color

#abae56

#abae56
hex#abae56
rgbrgb(171, 174, 86)
hslhsl(62, 35%, 51%)
oklchoklch(0.73 0.112 110.6)
Closest name: Around the Gills (#a1b670)Relative luminance 0.396

Colors that go with #abae56

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.

Real palettes that use #abae56

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#5956ae

#ae8556 · #7fae56

#56abae · #ae56ab

Split-complementary

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#567fae · #8556ae

#56ae85 · #5956ae · #ae567f

Contrast

#abae56 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.35:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #76783a as the text (4.65:1)
  • AAA: use #585a2b as the text (7.21:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1f1f1f (7:1)
Aaon black
8.92:1passpasspassPasses 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 #abae56 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 #abae56
live endpoint

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.

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

analyze #abae56 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/abae56-babea2-4e8fdf-272d1f-f1eee9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md