Pine & Birch
Open in tool →One deep pine on birch-white with sage and bark greys — Scandinavian forest: mostly light, one committed green.
Color
#265f35
#265f35
hex
#265f35rgb
rgb(38, 95, 53)hsl
hsl(136, 43%, 26%)oklch
oklch(0.436 0.091 149.7)Closest name: Hunter Green (#355e3b)Relative luminance 0.0885
Colors that go with #265f35
Charcoal, Royal Blue and Crimson 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 #265f35: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Royal Blue #4169e1
triadicshippedRoyal Blue completes a triad with #265f35 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #265f35 in 6 real palettes, including MAC Cosmetics's brand system and Gemstone, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #265f35: 5 real palettes, including Xbox's brand system and Intel's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Rust #b7410e
triadicshippedRust completes a triad with #265f35 — 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 #265f35: 5 real palettes, including Pine & Birch and Darkroom, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #265f35 in 16 real palettes, including Pine & Birch and Bookshop, as that palette's text colour.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
split-complementshippedBlue Violet is a split-complement of #265f35: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #265f35
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #265f35 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 7.58:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.77:1 | 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 #265f35 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#265f35 reads as dark, luxury, bold. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #265f35
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 #265f35 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/265f35-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