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
#596255
#596255
hex
#596255rgb
rgb(89, 98, 85)hsl
hsl(102, 7%, 36%)oklch
oklch(0.484 0.023 135.9)Closest name: Black Forest (#5e6354)Relative luminance 0.1152
Colors that go with #596255
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 text near-black that reads cleanly against #596255 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedCadet Blue is paired with #596255 in 4 real palettes, including Alpine and Dusk, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedChampagne is paired with #596255 in 5 real palettes, including BrandSweets's brand system and Darkroom — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #596255 in 6 real palettes, including Desert Road and Clay & Linen, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #596255 in 6 real palettes, including Gemstone and Five Guys's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #596255 in 7 real palettes, including HP's brand system and Campus, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod is paired with #596255 in 5 real palettes, including Fireside and Mid-Century, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
shippedMedium Sea Green is paired with #596255 in 5 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Console Light, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #596255
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #596255 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.36:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 3.3:1 | 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 #596255 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
#596255 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #596255
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 #596255 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/596255-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?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