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.
Color
#291e23
#291e23
hex
#291e23rgb
rgb(41, 30, 35)hsl
hsl(333, 15%, 14%)oklch
oklch(0.25 0.019 349.6)Closest name: Dark Orchestra (#251b19)Relative luminance 0.0152
Colors that go with #291e23
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 #291e23 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #291e23 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 #291e23, as the accent.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #291e23 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 #291e23, as the accent.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped5 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Typewriter put Brown beside #291e23, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #291e23 in 6 real palettes, including Kiln and Chalkboard, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #291e23: 10 real palettes, including SoFi's brand system and Diner, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #291e23
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #291e23 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 16.1:1 | 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 #291e23 as the background.
Brands using this color
- Allbirdsprimary · #241c24 · Δ1.34
- Appleprimary · #221e1f · Δ1.653
- Victoria's Secretprimary · #221d1d · Δ1.881
- Victoria's Secrettext · #221d1d · Δ1.881
- Acertext · #222222 · Δ1.925
- Airbnbtext · #222222 · Δ1.925
- AliExpressprimary · #222222 · Δ1.925
- AliExpresstext · #222222 · Δ1.925
- Nikonprimary · #222222 · Δ1.925
- Nikontext · #222222 · Δ1.925
- Coheretext · #212121 · Δ1.933
- Postmantext · #212121 · Δ1.933
- Rolextext · #212121 · Δ1.933
- SoFiprimary · #212121 · Δ1.933
- SoFitext · #212121 · Δ1.933
Palettes built around 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
#291e23 reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #291e23
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 #291e23 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/291e23-c49ca9-62cb69-2d1f20-f1e9f0?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