Trailhead
Open in tool →Rust, pine and sun — high-visibility earth tones that read at a distance and on a trail sign.
Color
#285525
#285525
hex
#285525rgb
rgb(40, 85, 37)hsl
hsl(116, 39%, 24%)oklch
oklch(0.405 0.091 142.5)Closest name: O Tannenbaum (#005522)Relative luminance 0.0708
Colors that go with #285525
Blue, Emerald Green 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.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including Rolex's brand system and Warp's brand system put Blue beside #285525, as the accent.
Emerald Green #50c878
shippedEmerald Green is paired with #285525 in 4 real palettes, including CircleCI's brand system and Neon's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Orange Red #ff4500
shippedOrange Red is paired with #285525 in 4 real palettes, including Neon's brand system and Clerk's brand system, as the accent.
Royal Blue #4169e1
triadicshippedRoyal Blue completes a triad with #285525 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Rust #b7410e
triadicshippedRust completes a triad with #285525 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Saddle Brown #8b4513
shippedDesigners have shipped Saddle Brown with #285525: 4 real palettes, including Bookshop and Darkroom, as the lead colour.
Teal #008080
analogousshippedTeal is #285525's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Cream #fffdd0
neutralCream is the surface #285525 wants: a warm off-white that shares its undertone, so #285525 reads softer on it than on pure white.
Real palettes that use #285525
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #285525 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 8.69:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.42:1 | 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 #285525 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
#285525 reads as dark, luxury, bold. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #285525
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 #285525 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/285525-a2bea3-8f4edf-1f2d24-eef1e9?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