Color
#15040e
#15040ergb(21, 4, 14)hsl(325, 68%, 5%)oklch(0.146 0.039 344.6)Colors that go with #15040e
Charcoal, Sea Green and Teal 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 #15040e: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Sea Green #2e8b57
split-complementshippedSea Green is a split-complement of #15040e: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Teal #008080
complementaryshippedTeal sits directly opposite #15040e 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 #15040e in 14 real palettes, including Ember and Ahrefs's brand system, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped18 real palettes, including Pfizer's brand system and Robinhood's brand system put Blue beside #15040e, as the supporting colour.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #15040e in 10 real palettes, including Gemstone and Circuit, as the supporting colour.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped4 real palettes, including Velvet and Garnet put Brown beside #15040e, as the lead colour.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #15040e: 5 real palettes, including Estate and Arctic, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #15040e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #15040e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 19.89:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.06:1 | 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 #15040e as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Fonts for this mood
#15040e reads as warm, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
Point 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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #15040e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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