Trailhead
Open in tool →Rust, pine and sun — high-visibility earth tones that read at a distance and on a trail sign.
Color
#28540d
#28540d
hex
#28540drgb
rgb(40, 84, 13)hsl
hsl(97, 73%, 19%)oklch
oklch(0.399 0.11 136.6)Closest name: Deep Forestial Escapade (#335500)Relative luminance 0.0682
Colors that go with #28540d
Saddle Brown, Sage Green and Taupe 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.
Saddle Brown #8b4513
shippedSaddle Brown is paired with #28540d in 4 real palettes, including Bookshop and Darkroom, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedSage Green is paired with #28540d in 4 real palettes, including Pine & Birch and Darkroom, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #28540d in 11 real palettes, including Pine & Birch and Squarespace's brand system, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Orchid #9932cc
complementaryDark Orchid sits directly opposite #28540d on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #28540d: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Emerald Green #50c878
shippedEmerald Green is paired with #28540d in 3 real palettes, including CircleCI's brand system and Neon's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Orange Red #ff4500
shippedOrange Red is paired with #28540d in 3 real palettes, including Neon's brand system and Clerk's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Slate Gray #708090
shippedSlate Gray is paired with #28540d in 3 real palettes, including Bookshop and Sepia Mono, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #28540d
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #28540d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 8.88:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.36:1 | 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 #28540d 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
#28540d reads as vivid, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #28540d
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 #28540d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/28540d-a9bea2-624edf-1f2d20-f0f1e9?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