Mint Modern
Open in tool →Emerald as a primary rather than a success color, anchored by deep teal text — fresh, friendly, and fintech-adjacent.
Color
#08261e
#08261e
hex
#08261ergb
rgb(8, 38, 30)hsl
hsl(164, 65%, 9%)oklch
oklch(0.243 0.039 172.3)Closest name: Nightmare (#112211)Relative luminance 0.0153
Colors that go with #08261e
Blue Violet, Charcoal and Crimson 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.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
triadicshippedBlue Violet completes a triad with #08261e — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #08261e: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Crimson #dc143c
split-complementshippedCrimson is a split-complement of #08261e: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Sienna #a0522d
triadicshippedSienna completes a triad with #08261e — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Teal #008080
analogousshippedTeal is #08261e's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Medium Violet Red #c71585
complementaryshippedMedium Violet Red sits directly opposite #08261e on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #08261e in 18 real palettes, including Wikipedia's brand system and Google's brand system, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped24 real palettes, including Bumble's brand system and Rolex's brand system put Blue beside #08261e, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #08261e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #08261e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 16.08:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.31:1 | fail | fail | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #08261e 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
#08261e reads as vivid, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #08261e
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 #08261e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/08261e-a2beba-d459b5-1f2b2d-e9f1eb?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