Undergrowth
Open in tool →Fern and lichen with a fungus orange on a fir-black — the forest floor at dusk, as a dark theme.
Named color
Black Forest
#5e6354
hex
#5e6354rgb
rgb(94, 99, 84)hsl
hsl(80, 8%, 36%)oklch
oklch(0.491 0.024 122.3)Relative luminance 0.1194
Black Forest on this page is the real value, not a screenshot: exact hex, RGB, HSL and OKLCH, ten tints and ten shades, classic harmonies, and WCAG contrast with fixes — plus the curated palettes it appears in and any public brand that adopts it.
Colors that go with Black Forest
Charcoal, Blush Pink and Cadet 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 text near-black that reads cleanly against Black Forest without the hard edge of pure #000.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Graphite Mono and Blush put Blush Pink beside Black Forest, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with Black Forest: 4 real palettes, including Alpine and Dusk, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including BrandSweets's brand system and Darkroom put Champagne beside Black Forest.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with Black Forest: 6 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Desert Road, as the lead colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with Black Forest in 6 real palettes, including Gemstone and Five Guys's brand system, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with Black Forest: 7 real palettes, including HP's brand system and Campus, as the accent.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to Black Forest in 5 real palettes, including Mid-Century and Fireside, as the accent.
Real palettes that use Black Forest
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| Black Forest as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.2:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 3.39:1 | fail | pass | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with Black Forest 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
Black Forest reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around Black Forest
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 #5e6354 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/5e6354-b1bea2-4e64df-232d1f-f1f0e9?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