Crayon Box
Open in tool →Red, teal and yellow at crayon saturation — joyful, but on white with black type so it stays readable for grown-ups.
Color
#182525
#182525
hex
#182525rgb
rgb(24, 37, 37)hsl
hsl(180, 21%, 12%)oklch
oklch(0.253 0.018 196.1)Closest name: Sunken Ship (#10252a)Relative luminance 0.0165
Colors that go with #182525
Charcoal, Amber 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 text near-black that reads cleanly against #182525 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #182525 in 18 real palettes, including Wikipedia's brand system and Google's brand system, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped24 real palettes, including Rolex's brand system and Bumble's brand system put Blue beside #182525, as the accent.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #182525 in 10 real palettes, including ClickUp's brand system and Yahoo's brand system, as the lead colour.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped6 real palettes, including Graphite Mono and Rain Garden put Blush Pink beside #182525, as the accent.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped5 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Typewriter put Brown beside #182525, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #182525 in 6 real palettes, including Chalkboard and Kiln, as the lead colour.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #182525: 10 real palettes, including Paper & Pine and SoFi's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #182525
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #182525 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 15.79:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.33:1 | 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 #182525 as the background.
Brands using this color
- AT&Tprimary · #1d2329 · Δ1.459
- AT&Ttext · #1d2329 · Δ1.459
- GitHubtext · #1f2328 · Δ1.537
- Subarutext · #1d252c · Δ1.635
- 7-Elevenprimary · #212529 · Δ1.715
- 7-Eleventext · #212529 · Δ1.715
- AMDprimary · #212529 · Δ1.715
- AMDtext · #212529 · Δ1.715
- Boeingtext · #212529 · Δ1.715
- Calvin Kleinprimary · #212529 · Δ1.715
- Calvin Kleintext · #212529 · Δ1.715
- Datadogtext · #212529 · Δ1.715
- Tommy Hilfigerprimary · #212529 · Δ1.715
- Tommy Hilfigertext · #212529 · Δ1.715
- Trader Joe'sprimary · #212529 · Δ1.715
- Trader Joe'stext · #212529 · Δ1.715
- Wikipediaprimary · #202122 · Δ1.741
- Wikipediatext · #202122 · Δ1.741
- Acertext · #222222 · Δ1.794
- Airbnbtext · #222222 · Δ1.794
- AliExpressprimary · #222222 · Δ1.794
- AliExpresstext · #222222 · Δ1.794
- Nikonprimary · #222222 · Δ1.794
- Nikontext · #222222 · Δ1.794
- Coheretext · #212121 · Δ1.855
- Postmantext · #212121 · Δ1.855
- Rolextext · #212121 · Δ1.855
- SoFiprimary · #212121 · Δ1.855
- SoFitext · #212121 · Δ1.855
- Retoolprimary · #242424 · Δ1.955
Palettes built around it
Paper & Pine
Open in tool →Deep pine on paper-white with a marmalade accent — a quiet, sustainable-brand palette that isn't beige.
Graphite Mono
Open in tool →Five greys, no hue — the true monochrome; the accent is a lighter grey, so hierarchy comes from weight and size alone.
Fonts for this mood
#182525 reads as cool, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #182525
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 #182525 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/182525-a2bbbe-d45994-1f272d-e9f1ed?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