Fresh Juice
Open in tool →Orange, mango and mint — a sugar rush; keep the type black so it stays legible under all that color.
Color
#261c22
#261c22
hex
#261c22rgb
rgb(38, 28, 34)hsl
hsl(324, 15%, 13%)oklch
oklch(0.241 0.019 341.9)Closest name: Night Demons (#201b20)Relative luminance 0.0136
Colors that go with #261c22
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 #261c22 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #261c22 in 18 real palettes, including Google's brand system and Wikipedia's brand system, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped23 real palettes, including Bumble's brand system and Rolex's brand system put Blue beside #261c22, as the supporting colour.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #261c22 in 10 real palettes, including ClickUp's brand system and Yahoo's brand system, as the lead colour.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped6 real palettes, including Graphite Mono and Estate put Blush Pink beside #261c22, as the accent.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped5 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Typewriter put Brown beside #261c22, as the accent.
Burgundy #800020
shipped4 real palettes, including Candlelight and Qatar Airways's brand system put Burgundy beside #261c22, as the lead colour.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #261c22 in 6 real palettes, including Kiln and Coffee Bar, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #261c22
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #261c22 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 16.51:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.27:1 | 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 #261c22 as the background.
Brands using this color
- Allbirdsprimary · #241c24 · Δ0.549
- Appleprimary · #221e1f · Δ1.306
- Victoria's Secretprimary · #221d1d · Δ1.414
- Victoria's Secrettext · #221d1d · Δ1.414
- Pinteresttext · #211922 · Δ1.558
- GitLabtext · #1f1f1f · Δ1.901
- Googletext · #1f1f1f · Δ1.901
- HubSpottext · #1f1f1f · Δ1.901
- Revoluttext · #1f1f1f · Δ1.901
- Bumbleprimary · #202020 · Δ1.911
- Bumbletext · #202020 · Δ1.911
- ClickUptext · #202020 · Δ1.911
- Lamborghiniprimary · #202020 · Δ1.911
- Lamborghinitext · #202020 · Δ1.911
- Nokiatext · #1d1e20 · Δ1.949
- Figmatext · #1e1e1e · Δ1.985
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#261c22 reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #261c22
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 #261c22 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/261c22-c19faf-6bcb62-2d1f22-f0e9f1?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