Pastel Pop
Open in tool →Pastels pushed to the saturated end — pink, sky and lemon — for brands that want soft AND loud.
Color
#261e29
#261e29
hex
#261e29rgb
rgb(38, 30, 41)hsl
hsl(284, 15%, 14%)oklch
oklch(0.249 0.023 316.7)Closest name: Black Velvet (#222233)Relative luminance 0.015
Colors that go with #261e29
Charcoal, Amber and Blue Violet 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 #261e29 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #261e29 in 4 real palettes, including Neobank and Twitch's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shippedBlush Pink is paired with #261e29 in 5 real palettes, including Graphite Mono and Blush, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Brown #a52a2a
shippedBrown is paired with #261e29 in 4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Typewriter, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #261e29 in 6 real palettes, including Kiln and Chalkboard, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedCadet Blue is paired with #261e29 in 9 real palettes, including Dusk and Alpine, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedChampagne is paired with #261e29 in 6 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Darkroom, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #261e29
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #261e29 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 16.15:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.3:1 | 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 #261e29 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#261e29 reads as cool, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #261e29
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 #261e29 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/261e29-bc9fc1-b1cb62-2d1f2b-ebe9f1?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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