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
#656249
#656249
hex
#656249rgb
rgb(101, 98, 73)hsl
hsl(54, 16%, 34%)oklch
oklch(0.492 0.038 101.9)Closest name: Black Forest (#5e6354)Relative luminance 0.1198
Colors that go with #656249
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 #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #656249: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Slate Blue #6a5acd
complementaryshippedSlate Blue sits directly opposite #656249 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including BrandSweets's brand system and Darkroom put Champagne beside #656249.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #656249: 6 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Desert Road, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #656249: 7 real palettes, including HP's brand system and Intel's brand system, as the accent.
Peru #cd853f
shipped4 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke put Peru beside #656249, as the lead colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #656249 in 4 real palettes, including GitHub's brand system and Console Light, as the accent.
Rust #b7410e
shippedRust shows up next to #656249 in 4 real palettes, including Magazine Ochre and Gallery, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #656249
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #656249 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.18:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 3.4:1 | 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 #656249 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#656249 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #656249
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 #656249 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/656249-bebea2-4ea2df-292d1f-f1ede9?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