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
#616657
#616657
hex
#616657rgb
rgb(97, 102, 87)hsl
hsl(80, 8%, 37%)oklch
oklch(0.501 0.024 122.3)Closest name: Italian Basil (#5f6957)Relative luminance 0.1273
Colors that go with #616657
Charcoal, Champagne and Copper 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 #616657 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedChampagne is paired with #616657 in 5 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Darkroom, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #616657 in 6 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Desert Road, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #616657 in 4 real palettes, including Gemstone and Netflix's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod is paired with #616657 in 5 real palettes, including Mid-Century and Fireside, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
shippedMedium Sea Green is paired with #616657 in 4 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Indigo SaaS, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Peru #cd853f
shippedPeru is paired with #616657 in 4 real palettes, including Mid-Century and Coffee Bar, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #616657 in 4 real palettes, including Stripe's brand system and Console Light, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #616657
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #616657 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.92:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 3.55:1 | 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 #616657 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
#616657 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #616657
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 #616657 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/616657-b1bea2-4e64df-232d1f-f1f0e9?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