Pine & Birch
Open in tool →One deep pine on birch-white with sage and bark greys — Scandinavian forest: mostly light, one committed green.
Color
#166038
#166038
hex
#166038rgb
rgb(22, 96, 56)hsl
hsl(148, 63%, 23%)oklch
oklch(0.434 0.097 154.7)Closest name: Ficus Elastica (#006131)Relative luminance 0.0882
Colors that go with #166038
Charcoal, Royal Blue and Medium Violet Red 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 #166038: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Royal Blue #4169e1
triadicshippedRoyal Blue completes a triad with #166038 — 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 #166038 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #166038 in 6 real palettes, including MAC Cosmetics's brand system and Gemstone, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #166038: 5 real palettes, including Xbox's brand system and Intel's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Rust #b7410e
triadicshippedRust completes a triad with #166038 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #166038: 5 real palettes, including Pine & Birch and Darkroom, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #166038 in 15 real palettes, including Pine & Birch and Bookshop, as that palette's text colour.
Real palettes that use #166038
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #166038 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 7.6:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.76:1 | 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 #166038 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#166038 reads as vivid, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #166038
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 #166038 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/166038-a2beb2-d259d4-1f2d2c-eaf1e9?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