Pine & Birch
Open in tool →One deep pine on birch-white with sage and bark greys — Scandinavian forest: mostly light, one committed green.
Color
#253c29
#253c29
hex
#253c29rgb
rgb(37, 60, 41)hsl
hsl(130, 24%, 19%)oklch
oklch(0.331 0.044 149)Closest name: Everglade (#264334)Relative luminance 0.0379
Colors that go with #253c29
Dark Olive Green, Sienna and Teal 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.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
analogousshippedDark Olive Green is #253c29's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Sienna #a0522d
triadicshippedSienna completes a triad with #253c29 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Teal #008080
analogousshippedTeal is #253c29's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #253c29 in 6 real palettes, including McDonald's's brand system and Beach Hut, as the lead colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped13 real palettes, including Instacart's brand system and Jeep's brand system put Blue beside #253c29, as the accent.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped5 real palettes, including Rain Garden and Garden Wedding put Blush Pink beside #253c29, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #253c29 in 4 real palettes, including Polaroid and Chalkboard, as the accent.
Cream #fffdd0
neutralCream is the surface #253c29 wants: a warm off-white that shares its undertone, so #253c29 reads softer on it than on pure white.
Real palettes that use #253c29
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #253c29 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 11.95:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.76:1 | 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 #253c29 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
#253c29 reads as muted, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #253c29
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 #253c29 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/253c29-a2beaa-b14edf-1f2d28-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