Paper & Pine
Open in tool →Deep pine on paper-white with a marmalade accent — a quiet, sustainable-brand palette that isn't beige.
Color
#81a29e
#81a29e
hex
#81a29ergb
rgb(129, 162, 158)hsl
hsl(173, 15%, 57%)oklch
oklch(0.686 0.037 187.3)Closest name: Japanese Bonsai (#829f96)Relative luminance 0.3298
Colors that go with #81a29e
Charcoal, Blue and Burlywood 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 for #81a29e: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Lexus's brand system and Canva's brand system put Blue beside #81a29e, as the supporting colour.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #81a29e in 4 real palettes, including Polaroid and Kiln, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Darkroom and Forest Floor put Champagne beside #81a29e, as the surface under it.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #81a29e: 8 real palettes, including Riverbed and Dusk, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #81a29e in 5 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Olive Grove, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #81a29e: 5 real palettes, including Open House and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Peru #cd853f
triadicshippedPeru completes a triad with #81a29e — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Real palettes that use #81a29e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #81a29e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.76:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.6:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #81a29e 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
mcpConnect your agent — build around #81a29e
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 #81a29e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/81a29e-a2bebe-d459a3-1f292d-e9f1ec?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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