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
#626657
#626657
hex
#626657rgb
rgb(98, 102, 87)hsl
hsl(76, 8%, 37%)oklch
oklch(0.502 0.024 119.4)Closest name: Italian Basil (#5f6957)Relative luminance 0.1279
Colors that go with #626657
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 #626657 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including BrandSweets's brand system and Forest Floor put Champagne beside #626657.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #626657: 6 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Desert Road, as the lead colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #626657 in 7 real palettes, including Gemstone and Five Guys's brand system, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #626657: 7 real palettes, including Campus and HP's brand system, as the lead colour.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #626657 in 5 real palettes, including Mid-Century and Fireside, as the accent.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
shippedMedium Sea Green is paired with #626657 in 4 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Indigo SaaS, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped5 real palettes, including Lufthansa's brand system and Paramount+'s brand system put Midnight Blue beside #626657, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #626657
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #626657 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.9:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 3.56:1 | 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 #626657 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
#626657 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #626657
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 #626657 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/626657-b3bea2-4e6edf-232d1f-f1efe9?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