Chalkboard
Open in tool →Slate green with chalk cream and a coral — nostalgic without being twee.
Color
#1e251e
#1e251e
hex
#1e251ergb
rgb(30, 37, 30)hsl
hsl(120, 10%, 13%)oklch
oklch(0.255 0.016 145.1)Closest name: Underworld (#1e231c)Relative luminance 0.0169
Colors that go with #1e251e
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 #1e251e without the hard edge of pure #000.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #1e251e 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 #1e251e, as the accent.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #1e251e 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 #1e251e, as the accent.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped5 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Typewriter put Brown beside #1e251e, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #1e251e in 6 real palettes, including Chalkboard and Kiln, as the lead colour.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #1e251e: 10 real palettes, including Paper & Pine and SoFi's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #1e251e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #1e251e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 15.69:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.34:1 | 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 #1e251e as the background.
Brands using this color
- Cursortext · #26251e · Δ1.411
- Todoisttext · #25221e · Δ1.573
- Acertext · #222222 · Δ1.668
- Airbnbtext · #222222 · Δ1.668
- AliExpressprimary · #222222 · Δ1.668
- AliExpresstext · #222222 · Δ1.668
- Nikonprimary · #222222 · Δ1.668
- Nikontext · #222222 · Δ1.668
- Retoolprimary · #242424 · Δ1.725
- Coheretext · #212121 · Δ1.792
- Postmantext · #212121 · Δ1.792
- Rolextext · #212121 · Δ1.792
- SoFiprimary · #212121 · Δ1.792
- SoFitext · #212121 · Δ1.792
- Wikipediaprimary · #202122 · Δ1.883
- Wikipediatext · #202122 · Δ1.883
- Bumbleprimary · #202020 · Δ2
- Bumbletext · #202020 · Δ2
- ClickUptext · #202020 · Δ2
- Lamborghiniprimary · #202020 · Δ2
- Lamborghinitext · #202020 · Δ2
Palettes built around it
Forest Floor
Open in tool →Moss and bark with a mushroom-cap amber — grounded and quiet, made for long-form nature content.
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.
Retro Pop
Open in tool →Fifties-diner red and steel blue with a peach — nostalgic pop that still passes contrast.
Paper & Pine
Open in tool →Deep pine on paper-white with a marmalade accent — a quiet, sustainable-brand palette that isn't beige.
Riverbed
Open in tool →Wet-stone green and pebble grey with a copper accent — an earth palette that leans cool, for outdoor and wellness.
Undergrowth
Open in tool →Fern and lichen with a fungus orange on a fir-black — the forest floor at dusk, as a dark theme.
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
#1e251e reads as muted, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #1e251e
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 #1e251e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/1e251e-a2bea5-994edf-1f2d25-edf1e9?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