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
#5e604d
#5e604d
hex
#5e604drgb
rgb(94, 96, 77)hsl
hsl(66, 11%, 34%)oklch
oklch(0.482 0.029 112.4)Closest name: Black Forest (#5e6354)Relative luminance 0.1128
Colors that go with #5e604d
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 #5e604d without the hard edge of pure #000.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #5e604d: 4 real palettes, including Dusk and Alpine, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including BrandSweets's brand system and Darkroom put Champagne beside #5e604d.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #5e604d: 6 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Desert Road, as the lead colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #5e604d in 4 real palettes, including Gemstone and Five Guys's brand system, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #5e604d: 7 real palettes, including HP's brand system and Campus, as the accent.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #5e604d in 5 real palettes, including Fireside and Mid-Century, as the accent.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
shippedMedium Sea Green is paired with #5e604d in 5 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Console Light, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #5e604d
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #5e604d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.45:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 3.26:1 | 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 #5e604d 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 #5e604d
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 #5e604d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/5e604d-b8bea2-4e86df-262d1f-f1eee9?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