Pine & Birch
Open in tool →One deep pine on birch-white with sage and bark greys — Scandinavian forest: mostly light, one committed green.
Color
#285d30
#285d30
hex
#285d30rgb
rgb(40, 93, 48)hsl
hsl(129, 40%, 26%)oklch
oklch(0.43 0.092 146.9)Closest name: Ficus Elastica (#006131)Relative luminance 0.0849
Colors that go with #285d30
Charcoal, Royal Blue and Sage Green 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 #285d30: 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 #285d30 — 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 #285d30: 6 real palettes, including Pine & Birch and Darkroom, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #285d30 in 16 real palettes, including Pine & Birch and Bookshop, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Orchid #9932cc
complementaryDark Orchid sits directly opposite #285d30 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
split-complementshippedBlue Violet is a split-complement of #285d30: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Medium Violet Red #c71585
split-complementshippedMedium Violet Red is a split-complement of #285d30: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped3 real palettes, including Darkroom and Sweetgreen's brand system put Champagne beside #285d30, as the surface under it.
Real palettes that use #285d30
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #285d30 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 7.78:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.7:1 | 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 #285d30 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
#285d30 reads as dark, luxury, bold. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #285d30
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 #285d30 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/285d30-a2bea9-ae4edf-1f2d27-ecf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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