Coffee Bar
Open in tool →Espresso and caramel: a dark-roast palette that photographs latte art beautifully.
Color
#201509
#201509
hex
#201509rgb
rgb(32, 21, 9)hsl
hsl(31, 56%, 8%)oklch
oklch(0.207 0.028 67.7)Closest name: Noir Mystique (#1f180a)Relative luminance 0.0086
Colors that go with #201509
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 #201509 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #201509 in 15 real palettes, including Heatwave and Trailhead, as the supporting colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped23 real palettes, including CVS's brand system and Signal's brand system put Blue beside #201509, as the supporting colour.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #201509 in 10 real palettes, including Yahoo's brand system and Prepare your taste buds...'s brand system, as the supporting colour.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped5 real palettes, including Cartier's brand system and Graphite Mono put Blush Pink beside #201509, as the supporting colour.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped5 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and State Farm's brand system put Brown beside #201509, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #201509 in 6 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Kiln, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #201509: 10 real palettes, including Diner and Estate, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #201509
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #201509 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 17.91:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.17:1 | 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 #201509 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
Trailhead
Open in tool →Rust, pine and sun — high-visibility earth tones that read at a distance and on a trail sign.
Heatwave
Open in tool →Blaze orange and hot yellow with one cold blue — the high-noon palette; use the blue where the eye needs to rest.
Fonts for this mood
#201509 reads as warm, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #201509
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 #201509 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/201509-c4b59c-62c7cb-2d2c1f-f1eae9?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