Dusk
Open in tool →Slate blue with a copper accent — calm, professional, slightly editorial; suits consultancies and journals.
Color
#25262crgb(37, 38, 44)hsl(231, 9%, 16%)oklch(0.27 0.011 278.1)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 #25262c without the hard edge of pure #000.
Amber is paired with #25262c 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 #25262c, as the supporting colour.
Blue Violet is paired with #25262c 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 Rain Garden put Blush Pink beside #25262c, as the accent.
5 real palettes, including Typewriter and Woodsmoke put Brown beside #25262c, as the accent.
Burlywood is paired with #25262c in 6 real palettes, including Chalkboard and Kiln, as the lead colour.
Designers have shipped Cadet Blue with #25262c: 10 real palettes, including Dusk and SoFi's brand system, as the supporting colour.
| #25262c as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 15.08:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.39:1 | 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 #25262c as the background.
#25262c reads as muted, dark, luxury. 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 #25262c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/25262c-9c9ec4-df834e-231f2d-e9eef1?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