Fresh Juice
Open in tool →Orange, mango and mint — a sugar rush; keep the type black so it stays legible under all that color.
Color
#231e24
#231e24
hex
#231e24rgb
rgb(35, 30, 36)hsl
hsl(290, 9%, 13%)oklch
oklch(0.243 0.013 320.6)Closest name: Night Demons (#201b20)Relative luminance 0.0141
Colors that go with #231e24
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 #231e24 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #231e24 in 18 real palettes, including Wikipedia's brand system and Google's brand system, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped23 real palettes, including Bumble's brand system and Rolex's brand system put Blue beside #231e24, as the supporting colour.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #231e24 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 Estate put Blush Pink beside #231e24, as the accent.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped5 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Typewriter put Brown beside #231e24, as the accent.
Burgundy #800020
shipped4 real palettes, including Qatar Airways's brand system and Mailchimp's brand system put Burgundy beside #231e24, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #231e24 in 6 real palettes, including Kiln and Coffee Bar, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #231e24
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #231e24 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 16.37:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.28:1 | 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 #231e24 as the background.
Brands using this color
- Allbirdsprimary · #241c24 · Δ0.711
- Appleprimary · #221e1f · Δ1.002
- Victoria's Secretprimary · #221d1d · Δ1.315
- Victoria's Secrettext · #221d1d · Δ1.315
- Bumbleprimary · #202020 · Δ1.344
- Bumbletext · #202020 · Δ1.344
- ClickUptext · #202020 · Δ1.344
- Lamborghiniprimary · #202020 · Δ1.344
- Lamborghinitext · #202020 · Δ1.344
- Wikipediaprimary · #202122 · Δ1.349
- Wikipediatext · #202122 · Δ1.349
- GitLabtext · #1f1f1f · Δ1.4
- Googletext · #1f1f1f · Δ1.4
- HubSpottext · #1f1f1f · Δ1.4
- Revoluttext · #1f1f1f · Δ1.4
- Coheretext · #212121 · Δ1.417
- Postmantext · #212121 · Δ1.417
- Rolextext · #212121 · Δ1.417
- SoFiprimary · #212121 · Δ1.417
- SoFitext · #212121 · Δ1.417
- Nokiatext · #1d1e20 · Δ1.44
- WhatsAppprimary · #1c1e21 · Δ1.495
- WhatsApptext · #1c1e21 · Δ1.495
- Qatar Airwaysprimary · #1f212b · Δ1.514
- Qatar Airwaystext · #1f212b · Δ1.514
- Figmatext · #1e1e1e · Δ1.574
- Acertext · #222222 · Δ1.602
- Airbnbtext · #222222 · Δ1.602
- AliExpressprimary · #222222 · Δ1.602
- AliExpresstext · #222222 · Δ1.602
- Nikonprimary · #222222 · Δ1.602
- Nikontext · #222222 · Δ1.602
- Formula 1text · #1c1c25 · Δ1.62
- GitHubtext · #1f2328 · Δ1.748
- Pinteresttext · #211922 · Δ1.784
- AT&Tprimary · #1d2329 · Δ1.897
- AT&Ttext · #1d2329 · Δ1.897
Palettes built around it
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.
Playground
Open in tool →Orange, blue and green — the colors of playground equipment; loud, cheerful, obviously for kids.
Retro Pop
Open in tool →Fifties-diner red and steel blue with a peach — nostalgic pop that still passes contrast.
Pastel Pop
Open in tool →Pastels pushed to the saturated end — pink, sky and lemon — for brands that want soft AND loud.
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
#231e24 reads as muted, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #231e24
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 #231e24 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/231e24-bf9fc1-a6cb62-2d1f29-ece9f1?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