Pine & Birch
Open in tool →One deep pine on birch-white with sage and bark greys — Scandinavian forest: mostly light, one committed green.
Color
#016038
#016038
hex
#016038rgb
rgb(1, 96, 56)hsl
hsl(155, 98%, 19%)oklch
oklch(0.43 0.102 156.8)Closest name: Ficus Elastica (#006131)Relative luminance 0.0866
Colors that go with #016038
Charcoal, Crimson and Royal 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #016038: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Crimson #dc143c
split-complementshippedCrimson is a split-complement of #016038: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Royal Blue #4169e1
triadicshippedRoyal Blue completes a triad with #016038 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Medium Violet Red #c71585
complementaryshippedMedium Violet Red sits directly opposite #016038 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #016038: 4 real palettes, including Pine & Birch and Darkroom, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #016038 in 13 real palettes, including Pine & Birch and Bookshop, as that palette's text colour.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
split-complementshippedBlue Violet is a split-complement of #016038: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped3 real palettes, including Darkroom and Sweetgreen's brand system put Champagne beside #016038, as the surface under it.
Real palettes that use #016038
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #016038 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 7.69:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.73:1 | fail | fail | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #016038 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#016038 reads as vivid, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #016038
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #016038 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/016038-a2beb6-d459c8-1f2d2d-e9f1ea?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md