Chalkboard
Open in tool →Slate green with chalk cream and a coral — nostalgic without being twee.
Color
#252a22
#252a22
hex
#252a22rgb
rgb(37, 42, 34)hsl
hsl(97, 11%, 15%)oklch
oklch(0.277 0.016 133.7)Closest name: Bitter Liquorice (#262926)Relative luminance 0.0216
Colors that go with #252a22
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 #252a22 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #252a22 in 18 real palettes, including McDonald's's brand system and Wikipedia's brand system, as the lead colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped23 real palettes, including Readymag's brand system and Headspace's brand system put Blue beside #252a22, as the supporting colour.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #252a22 in 8 real palettes, including ClickUp's brand system and Yahoo's brand system, as the lead colour.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped7 real palettes, including Graphite Mono and Rain Garden put Blush Pink beside #252a22, as the accent.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped4 real palettes, including Typewriter and Woodsmoke put Brown beside #252a22, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #252a22 in 5 real palettes, including Chalkboard and Kiln, as the lead colour.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #252a22: 10 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Paper & Pine, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #252a22
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #252a22 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 14.66:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.43:1 | 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 #252a22 as the background.
Brands using this color
- Superhumantext · #292827 · Δ1.525
- Readymagtext · #282828 · Δ1.605
- YouTubesecondary · #282828 · Δ1.605
- McDonald'stext · #292929 · Δ1.648
- Cursortext · #26251e · Δ1.664
- Squarespaceprimary · #2a2a2a · Δ1.785
- Chevroletprimary · #262626 · Δ1.82
- Chevrolettext · #262626 · Δ1.82
- Cloudflaretext · #262626 · Δ1.82
- Obsidiantext · #262626 · Δ1.82
- Sveltetext · #262626 · Δ1.82
- Gilletteprimary · #2b2929 · Δ1.85
- Gillettetext · #2b2929 · Δ1.85
Palettes built around it
Homestead
Open in tool →Timber and olive for homes that photograph in golden hour; nothing here competes with a good listing photo.
Olive Grove
Open in tool →Olive and straw with a rust accent — Mediterranean and unhurried; good for food, wine and hospitality.
Riverbed
Open in tool →Wet-stone green and pebble grey with a copper accent — an earth palette that leans cool, for outdoor and wellness.
Mushroom
Open in tool →Taupe, oat and a sage accent — the quiet earth palette: almost neutral, with just enough colour to feel alive.
Mid-Century
Open in tool →Tangerine, teal and mustard on cream — the 1960s lounge trio, one of the few retro palettes with real hue contrast.
Typewriter
Open in tool →Ink-black and ribbon-red on manila — the correspondence palette; all the vintage comes from the paper colour.
Undergrowth
Open in tool →Fern and lichen with a fungus orange on a fir-black — the forest floor at dusk, as a dark theme.
Oatmeal
Open in tool →Four warm greys from bark to oat — the neutral palette that photographs well and never argues with a product shot.
Greige
Open in tool →Grey-beige with a hint of olive — the interior-design neutral; the olive accent is the only thing that isn't a shade of nothing.
Fonts for this mood
#252a22 reads as muted, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #252a22
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 #252a22 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/252a22-a9bea2-624edf-1f2d20-f0f1e9?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