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
#616247rgb(97, 98, 71)hsl(62, 16%, 33%)oklch(0.488 0.041 109.6)Charcoal, Slate 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 is the body-text near-black for #616247: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Slate Blue sits directly opposite #616247 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
6 real palettes, including BrandSweets's brand system and Darkroom put Champagne beside #616247.
Designers have shipped Copper with #616247: 6 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Desert Road, as the lead colour.
Crimson is paired with #616247 in 5 real palettes, including Gemstone and Five Guys's brand system, as the accent.
Designers have shipped Denim with #616247: 7 real palettes, including Intel's brand system and Jack Daniel's's brand system, as the supporting colour.
5 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Mid-Century put Peru beside #616247, as the lead colour.
Royal Blue is paired with #616247 in 6 real palettes, including Subaru's brand system and GitHub's brand system, as the supporting colour.
| #616247 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.28:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.35:1 | 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 #616247 as the background.
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Point 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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #616247 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/616247-babea2-4e8fdf-272d1f-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