Pine & Birch
Open in tool →One deep pine on birch-white with sage and bark greys — Scandinavian forest: mostly light, one committed green.
Color
#97b285
#97b285
hex
#97b285rgb
rgb(151, 178, 133)hsl
hsl(96, 23%, 61%)oklch
oklch(0.731 0.07 133.1)Closest name: Foliage (#95b388)Relative luminance 0.4011
Colors that go with #97b285
Charcoal, Lilac 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 body-text near-black for #97b285: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #97b285 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #97b285 in 4 real palettes, including Chalkboard and Polaroid, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedChampagne is paired with #97b285 in 5 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Bramble, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #97b285 in 6 real palettes, including Riverbed and Bramble, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green is paired with #97b285 in 4 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Olive Grove, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
triadicshippedDark Salmon completes a triad with #97b285 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #97b285 in 6 real palettes, including Pine & Birch and Darkroom, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #97b285
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #97b285 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.33:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.02:1 | 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 #97b285 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 #97b285
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 #97b285 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/97b285-aabea2-5f4edf-1f2d20-f0f1e9?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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