Bookshop
Open in tool →Chestnut and forest on cream read like a cloth-bound spine; the palette recedes so covers and type do the talking.
Color
#262118
#262118
hex
#262118rgb
rgb(38, 33, 24)hsl
hsl(39, 23%, 12%)oklch
oklch(0.25 0.018 82.2)Closest name: Underworld (#1e231c)Relative luminance 0.0157
Colors that go with #262118
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 #262118 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #262118 in 18 real palettes, including Wikipedia's brand system and Google's brand system, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped23 real palettes, including Rolex's brand system and Bumble's brand system put Blue beside #262118, as the accent.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #262118 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 Blush put Blush Pink beside #262118, as the accent.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped5 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Typewriter put Brown beside #262118, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #262118 in 6 real palettes, including Kiln and Chalkboard, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #262118: 10 real palettes, including SoFi's brand system and Paper & Pine, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #262118
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #262118 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 15.99:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.31:1 | 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 #262118 as the background.
Brands using this color
- Todoisttext · #25221e · Δ0.994
- Cursortext · #26251e · Δ1.451
- New Balanceaccent · #2b2419 · Δ1.497
- Mailchimpprimary · #241c15 · Δ1.779
- BrandSweetstext · #241c14 · Δ1.782
- Acertext · #222222 · Δ1.792
- Airbnbtext · #222222 · Δ1.792
- AliExpressprimary · #222222 · Δ1.792
- AliExpresstext · #222222 · Δ1.792
- Nikonprimary · #222222 · Δ1.792
- Nikontext · #222222 · Δ1.792
- Coheretext · #212121 · Δ1.804
- Postmantext · #212121 · Δ1.804
- Rolextext · #212121 · Δ1.804
- SoFiprimary · #212121 · Δ1.804
- SoFitext · #212121 · Δ1.804
- Bumbleprimary · #202020 · Δ1.912
- Bumbletext · #202020 · Δ1.912
- ClickUptext · #202020 · Δ1.912
- Lamborghiniprimary · #202020 · Δ1.912
- Lamborghinitext · #202020 · Δ1.912
Palettes built around it
Wellness
Open in tool →Sage and terracotta feel natural and calm — the anti-hospital palette for wellbeing brands.
Farmers Market
Open in tool →Tomato, leaf and honey — the three colors of a produce stand, warm enough to make anything look fresh.
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.
Retro Pop
Open in tool →Fifties-diner red and steel blue with a peach — nostalgic pop that still passes contrast.
Harvest
Open in tool →Pumpkin, straw and burnt gold on parchment — the autumn palette that still feels like a product, not a place-mat.
Cider
Open in tool →Rust, honey and a moss green on cream — the orchard palette; the green keeps it from being all one temperature.
Clay & Linen
Open in tool →Terracotta, stone and olive on linen — the earth-tone default for ceramics, skincare and anything hand-made.
Desert Road
Open in tool →Sandstone and sand with a deep teal — the one cool note makes the warm colours look intentional rather than beige.
Kiln
Open in tool →Fired clay and ash on a dark umber — the earthy dark mode; warm enough that the dark surface reads as material, not void.
Darkroom
Open in tool →Sepia, faded ochre and a teal shadow on aged paper — the photograph-in-a-drawer palette, tuned so it still passes AA.
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.
Fonts for this mood
#262118 reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #262118
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 #262118 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/262118-c4ba9c-62b9cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?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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