Meadow
Open in tool →Fresh green, buttercup and a wildflower pink — spring at full saturation; the leaf-dark text does the anchoring.
Color
#162d1c
#162d1c
hex
#162d1crgb
rgb(22, 45, 28)hsl
hsl(136, 34%, 13%)oklch
oklch(0.272 0.043 151.1)Closest name: Pitch-Black Forests (#003322)Relative luminance 0.0213
Colors that go with #162d1c
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 text near-black for #162d1c: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
analogousshippedDark Olive Green is #162d1c'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 #162d1c — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Sienna #a0522d
triadicshippedSienna completes a triad with #162d1c — 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 #162d1c: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Teal #008080
analogousshippedTeal is #162d1c's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Medium Violet Red #c71585
complementaryshippedMedium Violet Red sits directly opposite #162d1c 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 #162d1c in 18 real palettes, including McDonald's's brand system and Wikipedia's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #162d1c
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #162d1c as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 14.72:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.43:1 | 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 #162d1c 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
#162d1c reads as muted, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #162d1c
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 #162d1c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/162d1c-a2bead-b959d4-1f2d29-ebf1e9?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