Color

#296b56

#296b56
hex#296b56
rgbrgb(41, 107, 86)
hslhsl(161, 45%, 29%)
oklchoklch(0.479 0.076 169.1)
Closest name: Forest Serenade (#336644)Relative luminance 0.1166

Colors that go with #296b56

Charcoal, Crimson and Medium Violet 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.

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

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#6b293e

#296b35 · #295f6b

#56296b · #6b5629

Split-complementary

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#6b295f · #6b3529

#35296b · #6b293e · #5f6b29

Contrast

#296b56 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
6.3:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #24604d as the text (7.35:1)
Aaon black
3.33:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #32856b as the text (4.7:1)
  • AAA: use #3fa686 as the text (7.01:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #dbdbdb (4.55:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #296b56 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

#296b56 reads as dark, luxury, bold. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #296b56
live endpoint

Point 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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #296b56 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/296b56-a2beb8-d459bb-1f2c2d-e9f1eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md