Pine & Birch
Open in tool →One deep pine on birch-white with sage and bark greys — Scandinavian forest: mostly light, one committed green.
Color
#a0b17c
#a0b17c
hex
#a0b17crgb
rgb(160, 177, 124)hsl
hsl(79, 25%, 59%)oklch
oklch(0.734 0.075 122.7)Closest name: Foliage (#95b388)Relative luminance 0.4037
Colors that go with #a0b17c
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 #a0b17c: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #a0b17c on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Lexus's brand system and League of Legends's brand system put Blue beside #a0b17c, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Bramble put Champagne beside #a0b17c, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #a0b17c: 5 real palettes, including Bramble and Desert Road, as the supporting colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #a0b17c in 5 real palettes, including Olive Grove and Forest Floor, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #a0b17c in 6 real palettes, including Pine & Birch and Darkroom, as the lead colour.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #a0b17c: 4 real palettes, including Stone and Crypto.com's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #a0b17c
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a0b17c as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.31:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.07:1 | 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 #a0b17c 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 #a0b17c
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 #a0b17c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/a0b17c-b2bea2-4e66df-232d1f-f1f0e9?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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