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
#261d1d
#261d1d
hex
#261d1drgb
rgb(38, 29, 29)hsl
hsl(0, 13%, 13%)oklch
oklch(0.242 0.014 18.2)Closest name: Dark Orchestra (#251b19)Relative luminance 0.0138
Colors that go with #261d1d
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 #261d1d without the hard edge of pure #000.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #261d1d 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 #261d1d, as the supporting colour.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #261d1d 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 #261d1d, as the accent.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped5 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Typewriter put Brown beside #261d1d, as the accent.
Burgundy #800020
shipped4 real palettes, including Mailchimp's brand system and Candlelight put Burgundy beside #261d1d, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #261d1d in 6 real palettes, including Kiln and Coffee Bar, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #261d1d
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #261d1d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 16.46:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.28:1 | 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 #261d1d as the background.
Brands using this color
- Victoria's Secretprimary · #221d1d · Δ0.808
- Victoria's Secrettext · #221d1d · Δ0.808
- Appleprimary · #221e1f · Δ0.839
- Bumbleprimary · #202020 · Δ1.428
- Bumbletext · #202020 · Δ1.428
- ClickUptext · #202020 · Δ1.428
- Lamborghiniprimary · #202020 · Δ1.428
- Lamborghinitext · #202020 · Δ1.428
- GitLabtext · #1f1f1f · Δ1.43
- Googletext · #1f1f1f · Δ1.43
- HubSpottext · #1f1f1f · Δ1.43
- Revoluttext · #1f1f1f · Δ1.43
- Mailchimpprimary · #241c15 · Δ1.499
- Allbirdsprimary · #241c24 · Δ1.544
- Coheretext · #212121 · Δ1.545
- Postmantext · #212121 · Δ1.545
- Rolextext · #212121 · Δ1.545
- SoFiprimary · #212121 · Δ1.545
- SoFitext · #212121 · Δ1.545
- Figmatext · #1e1e1e · Δ1.554
- BrandSweetstext · #241c14 · Δ1.663
- Wikipediaprimary · #202122 · Δ1.676
- Wikipediatext · #202122 · Δ1.676
- Todoisttext · #25221e · Δ1.712
- Nokiatext · #1d1e20 · Δ1.756
- Acertext · #222222 · Δ1.758
- Airbnbtext · #222222 · Δ1.758
- AliExpressprimary · #222222 · Δ1.758
- AliExpresstext · #222222 · Δ1.758
- Nikonprimary · #222222 · Δ1.758
- Nikontext · #222222 · Δ1.758
- WhatsAppprimary · #1c1e21 · Δ1.967
- WhatsApptext · #1c1e21 · Δ1.967
Palettes built around it
Crayon Box
Open in tool →Red, teal and yellow at crayon saturation — joyful, but on white with black type so it stays readable for grown-ups.
Playground
Open in tool →Orange, blue and green — the colors of playground equipment; loud, cheerful, obviously for kids.
Retro Pop
Open in tool →Fifties-diner red and steel blue with a peach — nostalgic pop that still passes contrast.
Woodsmoke
Open in tool →Amber and oxblood on smoky brown — a fireside dark mode that photographs whisky, leather and wool.
Diner
Open in tool →Cherry red, mint-teal and butter yellow — chrome-and-vinyl retro; the red does the work, the teal cools it.
Graphite Mono
Open in tool →Five greys, no hue — the true monochrome; the accent is a lighter grey, so hierarchy comes from weight and size alone.
Candlelight
Open in tool →Burgundy, gold and a blush on warm white — the evening wedding set; burgundy carries the formality, blush the softness.
Fonts for this mood
#261d1d reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #261d1d
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 #261d1d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/261d1d-c4a19c-62cb98-2d251f-f1e9ed?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