Color
#afd685
#afd685rgb(175, 214, 133)hsl(89, 50%, 68%)oklch(0.829 0.115 129.5)Colors that go with #afd685
Charcoal, 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 #afd685: 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 #afd685 — 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 #afd685 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 Binance's brand system and Bumble's brand system put Blue beside #afd685, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #afd685: 4 real palettes, including Coastal and Diner, as the lead colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #afd685 in 6 real palettes, including Wise's brand system and Diner, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #afd685 in 4 real palettes, including Oatmeal and 7-Eleven's brand system, as the lead colour.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #afd685: 5 real palettes, including Prime Video's brand system and Astro's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #afd685
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #afd685 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.64:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 12.78:1 | 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 #afd685 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 #afd685 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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