Color
#bbc011
#bbc011rgb(187, 192, 17)hsl(62, 84%, 41%)oklch(0.778 0.169 111.6)Colors that go with #bbc011
Charcoal, Crimson and Dark Olive Green 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 #bbc011: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #bbc011 in 4 real palettes, including Tabloid and Wise's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green is paired with #bbc011 in 4 real palettes, including Farmers Market and Forest Floor, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Rust #b7410e
shippedRust is paired with #bbc011 in 4 real palettes, including Noir Beauty and Trailhead, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedSage Green is paired with #bbc011 in 5 real palettes, including Scale AI's brand system and Polaroid, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Slate Gray #708090
shippedSlate Gray is paired with #bbc011 in 5 real palettes, including Noir Beauty and Ledger Dark, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #bbc011 in 9 real palettes, including Citrus Grove and Mid-Century, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Violet #ee82ee
split-complementshippedViolet is a split-complement of #bbc011: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #bbc011
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #bbc011 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.97:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10.66:1 | 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 #bbc011 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 #bbc011 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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