Citrus Grove
Open in tool →Orange, lime leaf and lemon — a citrus palette that reads fresh, for drinks, produce and anything seasonal.
Color
#252509
#252509
hex
#252509rgb
rgb(37, 37, 9)hsl
hsl(60, 61%, 9%)oklch
oklch(0.257 0.044 109.1)Closest name: Midnight Pines (#17240b)Relative luminance 0.0174
Colors that go with #252509
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 #252509: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Royal Blue #4169e1
split-complementshippedRoyal Blue is a split-complement of #252509: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Sienna #a0522d
analogousshippedSienna is #252509's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Slate Blue #6a5acd
complementaryshippedSlate Blue sits directly opposite #252509 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Steel Blue #4682b4
triadicshippedSteel Blue completes a triad with #252509 — 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 #252509 in 18 real palettes, including Maple and Wikipedia's brand system, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped22 real palettes, including Headspace's brand system and Rolex's brand system put Blue beside #252509, as the accent.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #252509 in 8 real palettes, including ClickUp's brand system and Yahoo's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #252509
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #252509 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 15.59:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.35:1 | 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 #252509 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
Fonts for this mood
#252509 reads as vivid, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #252509
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 #252509 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/252509-bbbea2-4e94df-272d1f-f1ede9?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