Color
#b4b231
#b4b231rgb(180, 178, 49)hsl(59, 57%, 45%)oklch(0.743 0.144 108.6)Colors that go with #b4b231
Charcoal, Cornflower 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 #b4b231: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
split-complementshippedCornflower Blue is a split-complement of #b4b231: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #b4b231 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 League of Legends's brand system and Lexus's brand system put Blue beside #b4b231, as the supporting colour.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #b4b231: 4 real palettes, including Open House and Coastal, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Forest Floor put Champagne beside #b4b231, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #b4b231 in 5 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Olive Grove, as the supporting colour.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
triadicshippedDeep Sky Blue completes a triad with #b4b231 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Real palettes that use #b4b231
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #b4b231 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.25:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.35:1 | 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 #b4b231 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
#b4b231 reads as warm. 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 #b4b231 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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