Color
#bcea53
#bcea53rgb(188, 234, 83)hsl(78, 78%, 62%)oklch(0.876 0.183 124.6)Colors that go with #bcea53
Blue, Charcoal and Crimson 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.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Robinhood's brand system and Binance's brand system put Blue beside #bcea53, as the supporting colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #bcea53: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #bcea53 in 5 real palettes, including Wise's brand system and Lay's's brand system, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #bcea53: 4 real palettes, including Ikea's brand system and FIFA's brand system, as the accent.
Red #ff0000
shippedRed is paired with #bcea53 in 5 real palettes, including Wise's brand system and Gatorade's brand system, as the lead colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #bcea53 in 4 real palettes, including NBA's brand system and MongoDB's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #bcea53 in 7 real palettes, including Crayon Box and Citrus Grove, as the text colour against it.
Plum #dda0dd
complementaryPlum sits directly opposite #bcea53 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #bcea53
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #bcea53 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.4:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 15.03:1 | 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 #bcea53 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 #bcea53 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/bcea53-b2bea2-4e69df-232d1f-f1f0e9?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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