Olive Grove
Open in tool →Olive and straw with a rust accent — Mediterranean and unhurried; good for food, wine and hospitality.
Color
#696a20
#696a20
hex
#696a20rgb
rgb(105, 106, 32)hsl
hsl(61, 54%, 27%)oklch
oklch(0.508 0.095 110.1)Closest name: darkolivegreen (#556b2f)Relative luminance 0.1342
Colors that go with #696a20
Charcoal, Blue Violet 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 #696a20: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
complementaryshippedBlue Violet sits directly opposite #696a20 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 Forest Floor and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #696a20, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #696a20: 5 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Wellness, as the lead colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #696a20 in 4 real palettes, including Five Guys's brand system and Netflix's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #696a20: 5 real palettes, including Intel's brand system and Jack Daniel's's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Peru #cd853f
shipped4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Coffee Bar put Peru beside #696a20, as the lead colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
split-complementshippedRoyal Blue is a split-complement of #696a20: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #696a20
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #696a20 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.7:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 3.68:1 | 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 #696a20 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
#696a20 reads as dark, luxury, bold. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #696a20
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 #696a20 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/696a20-babea2-4e92df-272d1f-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