Pine & Birch
Open in tool →One deep pine on birch-white with sage and bark greys — Scandinavian forest: mostly light, one committed green.
Color
#9cb096
#9cb096
hex
#9cb096rgb
rgb(156, 176, 150)hsl
hsl(106, 14%, 64%)oklch
oklch(0.734 0.043 138.5)Closest name: Copper Patina (#9db4a0)Relative luminance 0.4032
Colors that go with #9cb096
Charcoal, Lilac and Blue 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 #9cb096: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #9cb096 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including Lexus's brand system and League of Legends's brand system put Blue beside #9cb096, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Bramble put Champagne beside #9cb096, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #9cb096: 7 real palettes, including Riverbed and Clean Beauty, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #9cb096 in 4 real palettes, including Olive Grove and Oatmeal, as the lead colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #9cb096: 4 real palettes, including Liquid Death's brand system and Spline's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #9cb096 in 5 real palettes, including Pine & Birch and Desert Road, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #9cb096
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #9cb096 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.32:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.06:1 | 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 #9cb096 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 #9cb096
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 #9cb096 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/9cb096-a5bea2-774edf-1f2d22-eff1e9?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