Pine & Birch
Open in tool →One deep pine on birch-white with sage and bark greys — Scandinavian forest: mostly light, one committed green.
Color
#283a27
#283a27
hex
#283a27rgb
rgb(40, 58, 39)hsl
hsl(117, 20%, 19%)oklch
oklch(0.327 0.04 143.3)Closest name: Queen of Trees (#1c401f)Relative luminance 0.0362
Colors that go with #283a27
Dark Olive Green, Sienna and Steel 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.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
analogousshippedDark Olive Green is #283a27'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 #283a27 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Steel Blue #4682b4
triadicshippedSteel Blue completes a triad with #283a27 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Teal #008080
analogousshippedTeal is #283a27's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Medium Purple #9370db
complementaryshippedMedium Purple sits directly opposite #283a27 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 #283a27 in 7 real palettes, including McDonald's's brand system and Beach Hut, as the lead colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped14 real palettes, including Instacart's brand system and Minecraft's brand system put Blue beside #283a27, as the accent.
Cream #fffdd0
neutralCream is the surface #283a27 wants: a warm off-white that shares its undertone, so #283a27 reads softer on it than on pure white.
Real palettes that use #283a27
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #283a27 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 12.18:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.72:1 | 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 #283a27 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
#283a27 reads as muted, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #283a27
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 #283a27 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/283a27-a2bea4-924edf-1f2d25-edf1e9?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