Paper & Pine
Open in tool →Deep pine on paper-white with a marmalade accent — a quiet, sustainable-brand palette that isn't beige.
Color
#90a08d
#90a08d
hex
#90a08drgb
rgb(144, 160, 141)hsl
hsl(111, 9%, 59%)oklch
oklch(0.688 0.033 140.7)Closest name: Basil (#879f84)Relative luminance 0.3299
Colors that go with #90a08d
Charcoal, Blue and Blush Pink 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 #90a08d: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Lexus's brand system and League of Legends's brand system put Blue beside #90a08d, as the supporting colour.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Garden Wedding and Estate put Blush Pink beside #90a08d, as the supporting colour.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #90a08d in 5 real palettes, including Polaroid and Kiln, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Darkroom and Forest Floor put Champagne beside #90a08d, as the surface under it.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #90a08d: 8 real palettes, including Riverbed and Clean Beauty, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #90a08d in 6 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Olive Grove, as the lead colour.
Orchid #da70d6
complementaryOrchid sits directly opposite #90a08d on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #90a08d
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #90a08d 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 #90a08d 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
#90a08d reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #90a08d
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 #90a08d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/90a08d-a3bea2-834edf-1f2d23-eef1e9?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