Undergrowth
Open in tool →Fern and lichen with a fungus orange on a fir-black — the forest floor at dusk, as a dark theme.
Color
#142a17
#142a17
hex
#142a17rgb
rgb(20, 42, 23)hsl
hsl(128, 35%, 12%)oklch
oklch(0.26 0.045 147.3)Closest name: Lindworm Green (#172808)Relative luminance 0.0187
Colors that go with #142a17
Charcoal, Dark Olive Green 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 body-text near-black for #142a17: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
analogousshippedDark Olive Green is #142a17's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Royal Blue #4169e1
triadicshippedRoyal Blue completes a triad with #142a17 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Rust #b7410e
triadicshippedRust completes a triad with #142a17 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Slate Blue #6a5acd
split-complementshippedSlate Blue is a split-complement of #142a17: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Teal #008080
analogousshippedTeal is #142a17's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Dark Orchid #9932cc
complementaryshippedDark Orchid sits directly opposite #142a17 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #142a17 in 18 real palettes, including Wikipedia's brand system and McDonald's's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #142a17
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #142a17 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 15.29:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.37:1 | 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 #142a17 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
#142a17 reads as dark, luxury, bold. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #142a17
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 #142a17 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/142a17-a2bea9-ac4edf-1f2d27-ecf1e9?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