Undergrowth
Open in tool →Fern and lichen with a fungus orange on a fir-black — the forest floor at dusk, as a dark theme.
Color
#516250
#516250
hex
#516250rgb
rgb(81, 98, 80)hsl
hsl(117, 10%, 35%)oklch
oklch(0.476 0.035 143.5)Closest name: Black Forest (#5e6354)Relative luminance 0.1106
Colors that go with #516250
Charcoal, Cadet Blue and Champagne 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 #516250: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #516250: 4 real palettes, including Alpine and Paper & Pine, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including BrandSweets's brand system and Darkroom put Champagne beside #516250.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #516250: 6 real palettes, including Desert Road and Clay & Linen, as the lead colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #516250 in 6 real palettes, including Gemstone and Codecademy's brand system, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #516250: 7 real palettes, including HP's brand system and Intel's brand system, as the accent.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #516250 in 5 real palettes, including Fireside and Mid-Century, as the accent.
Slate Blue #6a5acd
split-complementshippedSlate Blue is a split-complement of #516250: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #516250
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #516250 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.54:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 3.21:1 | fail | pass | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #516250 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
mcpConnect your agent — build around #516250
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 #516250 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/516250-a2bea4-924edf-1f2d25-edf1e9?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