Dusk
Open in tool →Slate blue with a copper accent — calm, professional, slightly editorial; suits consultancies and journals.
Color
#25252drgb(37, 37, 45)hsl(240, 10%, 16%)oklch(0.268 0.015 285.4)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 is the text near-black that reads cleanly against #25252d without the hard edge of pure #000.
Amber is paired with #25252d in 18 real palettes, including McDonald's's brand system and Wikipedia's brand system, as the lead colour.
23 real palettes, including Readymag's brand system and Rolex's brand system put Blue beside #25252d, as the supporting colour.
Blue Violet is paired with #25252d in 9 real palettes, including ClickUp's brand system and Yahoo's brand system, as the lead colour.
7 real palettes, including Graphite Mono and Blush put Blush Pink beside #25252d, as the accent.
5 real palettes, including Typewriter and Woodsmoke put Brown beside #25252d, as the accent.
Burlywood is paired with #25252d in 6 real palettes, including Kiln and Chalkboard, as the accent.
Designers have shipped Cadet Blue with #25252d: 10 real palettes, including Dusk and SoFi's brand system, as the supporting colour.
| #25252d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 15.2:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.38:1 | 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 #25252d as the background.
Slate blue with a copper accent — calm, professional, slightly editorial; suits consultancies and journals.
Sea-green and slate with a coral — a literal tide pool: two cool tones, one warm creature.
#25252d reads as cool, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
Point 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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #25252d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/25252d-a19cc4-df994e-251f2d-e9edf1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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