Chalkboard
Open in tool →Slate green with chalk cream and a coral — nostalgic without being twee.
Color
#262c2b
#262c2b
hex
#262c2brgb
rgb(38, 44, 43)hsl
hsl(170, 7%, 16%)oklch
oklch(0.287 0.009 184.6)Closest name: Cinder (#242a2e)Relative luminance 0.0239
Colors that go with #262c2b
Amber, Blush Pink and Burlywood 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.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shippedBlush Pink is paired with #262c2b in 6 real palettes, including Rain Garden and Graphite Mono, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #262c2b in 5 real palettes, including Chalkboard and Polaroid, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedCadet Blue is paired with #262c2b in 9 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Dusk, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedChampagne is paired with #262c2b in 6 real palettes, including Darkroom and Forest Floor, as the surface under it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedCobalt Blue is paired with #262c2b in 5 real palettes, including Airtable's brand system and Ink & Paper, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #262c2b in 10 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Riverbed, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
White Smoke #f5f5f5
neutralWhite Smoke is the near-white surface #262c2b was made for — maximum legibility with no colour cast to argue with.
Real palettes that use #262c2b
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #262c2b as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 14.21:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.48:1 | 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 #262c2b as the background.
Brands using this color
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.
Clean Beauty
Open in tool →Sage and clay on unbleached white — the nothing-to-hide palette for ingredient-led skincare.
Olive Grove
Open in tool →Olive and straw with a rust accent — Mediterranean and unhurried; good for food, wine and hospitality.
Mushroom
Open in tool →Taupe, oat and a sage accent — the quiet earth palette: almost neutral, with just enough colour to feel alive.
Typewriter
Open in tool →Ink-black and ribbon-red on manila — the correspondence palette; all the vintage comes from the paper colour.
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
#262c2b reads as neutral, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #262c2b
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 #262c2b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/262c2b-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?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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