Pine & Birch
Open in tool →One deep pine on birch-white with sage and bark greys — Scandinavian forest: mostly light, one committed green.
Color
#265a3e
#265a3e
hex
#265a3ergb
rgb(38, 90, 62)hsl
hsl(148, 41%, 25%)oklch
oklch(0.423 0.073 157.5)Closest name: Evergreen (#125b49)Relative luminance 0.0807
Colors that go with #265a3e
Crimson, Denim and Orange 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.
Crimson #dc143c
split-complementshippedCrimson is a split-complement of #265a3e: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #265a3e in 4 real palettes, including Hinge's brand system and Jack Daniel's's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Orange Red #ff4500
shippedOrange Red is paired with #265a3e in 4 real palettes, including Neon's brand system and HubSpot's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #265a3e in 4 real palettes, including Console Light and GitHub's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedSage Green is paired with #265a3e in 6 real palettes, including Pine & Birch and Darkroom, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Medium Violet Red #c71585
complementaryMedium Violet Red sits directly opposite #265a3e on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedChampagne is paired with #265a3e in 3 real palettes, including Darkroom and Sweetgreen's brand system, as the surface under it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
White Smoke #f5f5f5
neutralWhite Smoke is the surface for #265a3e: a clean near-white with no warm cast, so the cool hue stays clear instead of drifting muddy.
Real palettes that use #265a3e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #265a3e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 8.03:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.61:1 | 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 #265a3e as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#265a3e reads as dark, luxury, bold. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #265a3e
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 #265a3e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/265a3e-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