Magazine Ochre
Open in tool →Ochre and walnut on unbleached stock, with teal as the counterpoint — a features-section palette with some heat in it.
Color
#241a09
#241a09
hex
#241a09rgb
rgb(36, 26, 9)hsl
hsl(38, 60%, 9%)oklch
oklch(0.226 0.033 79.2)Closest name: Burnt Coffee (#271b10)Relative luminance 0.0113
Colors that go with #241a09
Charcoal, Royal Blue and Sienna 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 #241a09: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Royal Blue #4169e1
complementaryshippedRoyal Blue sits directly opposite #241a09 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Sienna #a0522d
analogousshippedSienna is #241a09's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Slate Blue #6a5acd
split-complementshippedSlate Blue is a split-complement of #241a09: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Steel Blue #4682b4
split-complementshippedSteel Blue is a split-complement of #241a09: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Teal #008080
triadicshippedTeal completes a triad with #241a09 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #241a09 in 18 real palettes, including Maple and Trailhead, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped23 real palettes, including CVS's brand system and Signal's brand system put Blue beside #241a09, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #241a09
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #241a09 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 17.12:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.23:1 | 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 #241a09 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Farmers Market
Open in tool →Tomato, leaf and honey — the three colors of a produce stand, warm enough to make anything look fresh.
Trailhead
Open in tool →Rust, pine and sun — high-visibility earth tones that read at a distance and on a trail sign.
Saffron
Open in tool →Saffron and clove with a teal counterpoint — spice-market warmth, balanced so it doesn't go orange everywhere.
Maple
Open in tool →The three colours a maple goes through in October, on a warm white — loud, seasonal, and readable because the type is near-black.
Tequila Sunrise
Open in tool →Red through orange to yellow — the poured-drink gradient as flat tokens; use it left-to-right, never all at once.
Fonts for this mood
#241a09 reads as warm, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #241a09
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 #241a09 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/241a09-c4ba9c-62bbcb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?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