Pine & Birch
Open in tool →One deep pine on birch-white with sage and bark greys — Scandinavian forest: mostly light, one committed green.
Color
#9cb587
#9cb587
hex
#9cb587rgb
rgb(156, 181, 135)hsl
hsl(93, 24%, 62%)oklch
oklch(0.742 0.07 131.1)Closest name: Foliage (#95b388)Relative luminance 0.4186
Colors that go with #9cb587
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 #9cb587: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #9cb587 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 #9cb587, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Bramble put Champagne beside #9cb587, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #9cb587: 5 real palettes, including Desert Road and Bramble, as the lead colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #9cb587 in 4 real palettes, including Olive Grove and Forest Floor, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #9cb587 in 6 real palettes, including Pine & Birch and Desert Road, as the lead colour.
Mustard Yellow #ffdb58
shipped4 real palettes, including Citrus Grove and Meadow put Mustard Yellow beside #9cb587, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #9cb587
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #9cb587 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.24:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.37:1 | 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 #9cb587 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 #9cb587
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 #9cb587 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/9cb587-abbea2-584edf-202d1f-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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