Olive Grove
Open in tool →Olive and straw with a rust accent — Mediterranean and unhurried; good for food, wine and hospitality.
Color
#2d2a16
#2d2a16
hex
#2d2a16rgb
rgb(45, 42, 22)hsl
hsl(52, 34%, 13%)oklch
oklch(0.282 0.034 100.8)Closest name: Marshland (#2b2e26)Relative luminance 0.0227
Colors that go with #2d2a16
Charcoal, Dark Olive Green and Sienna 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 #2d2a16: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
analogousshippedDark Olive Green is #2d2a16's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Sienna #a0522d
analogousshippedSienna is #2d2a16's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Slate Blue #6a5acd
complementaryshippedSlate Blue sits directly opposite #2d2a16 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Steel Blue #4682b4
split-complementshippedSteel Blue is a split-complement of #2d2a16: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Teal #008080
triadicshippedTeal completes a triad with #2d2a16 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #2d2a16 in 15 real palettes, including Wikipedia's brand system and Maple, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped22 real palettes, including Headspace's brand system and Readymag's brand system put Blue beside #2d2a16, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #2d2a16
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #2d2a16 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 14.44:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.45:1 | 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 #2d2a16 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#2d2a16 reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #2d2a16
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 #2d2a16 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/2d2a16-c4c39c-4ea7df-292d1f-f1ece9?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