Trailhead
Open in tool →Rust, pine and sun — high-visibility earth tones that read at a distance and on a trail sign.
Color
#38581d
#38581d
hex
#38581drgb
rgb(56, 88, 29)hsl
hsl(93, 50%, 23%)oklch
oklch(0.421 0.094 133.1)Closest name: Deep Forestial Escapade (#335500)Relative luminance 0.0791
Colors that go with #38581d
Charcoal, Saddle Brown 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 #38581d: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Saddle Brown #8b4513
shippedDesigners have shipped Saddle Brown with #38581d: 4 real palettes, including Bookshop and Darkroom, as the lead colour.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #38581d: 7 real palettes, including Pine & Birch and Darkroom, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #38581d in 15 real palettes, including Pine & Birch and Bookshop, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Orchid #9932cc
complementaryDark Orchid sits directly opposite #38581d on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Medium Violet Red #c71585
split-complementshippedMedium Violet Red is a split-complement of #38581d: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Blue #0000ff
shipped3 real palettes, including Rolex's brand system and Warp's brand system put Blue beside #38581d, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped3 real palettes, including Darkroom and Sweetgreen's brand system put Champagne beside #38581d, as the surface under it.
Real palettes that use #38581d
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #38581d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 8.13:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.58:1 | 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 #38581d 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
#38581d reads as dark, luxury, bold. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #38581d
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 #38581d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/38581d-abbea2-584edf-202d1f-f0f1e9?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