Trailhead
Open in tool →Rust, pine and sun — high-visibility earth tones that read at a distance and on a trail sign.
Color
#2b501b
#2b501b
hex
#2b501brgb
rgb(43, 80, 27)hsl
hsl(102, 50%, 21%)oklch
oklch(0.39 0.092 137.4)Closest name: Treetop Cathedral (#2f4a15)Relative luminance 0.0633
Colors that go with #2b501b
Blue, Crimson and Emerald 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.
Blue #0000ff
shipped6 real palettes, including Rolex's brand system and Jeep's brand system put Blue beside #2b501b, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
triadicshippedCrimson completes a triad with #2b501b — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Emerald Green #50c878
shippedEmerald Green is paired with #2b501b in 5 real palettes, including CircleCI's brand system and Neon's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
triadicshippedRoyal Blue completes a triad with #2b501b — 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 #2b501b: 4 real palettes, including Bookshop and Darkroom, as the lead colour.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #2b501b: 5 real palettes, including Pine & Birch and Stone, as the supporting colour.
Dark Orchid #9932cc
complementaryDark Orchid sits directly opposite #2b501b on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Cream #fffdd0
neutralCream is the surface #2b501b wants: a warm off-white that shares its undertone, so #2b501b reads softer on it than on pure white.
Real palettes that use #2b501b
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #2b501b as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 9.27:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.27:1 | 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 #2b501b 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
#2b501b reads as dark, luxury, bold. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #2b501b
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 #2b501b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/2b501b-a7bea2-6e4edf-1f2d21-eff1e9?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