Candlelight
Open in tool →Burgundy, gold and a blush on warm white — the evening wedding set; burgundy carries the formality, blush the softness.
Color
#2b181a
#2b181a
hex
#2b181argb
rgb(43, 24, 26)hsl
hsl(354, 28%, 13%)oklch
oklch(0.235 0.031 12.8)Closest name: Black Cherry (#2c1620)Relative luminance 0.0124
Colors that go with #2b181a
Charcoal, Dark Olive Green and Sienna 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 body-text near-black for #2b181a: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
triadicshippedDark Olive Green completes a triad with #2b181a — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Sienna #a0522d
analogousshippedSienna is #2b181a's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Steel Blue #4682b4
triadicshippedSteel Blue completes a triad with #2b181a — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Teal #008080
complementaryshippedTeal sits directly opposite #2b181a on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #2b181a in 18 real palettes, including Maple and Google's brand system, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped23 real palettes, including Bumble's brand system and Rolex's brand system put Blue beside #2b181a, as the supporting colour.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #2b181a in 10 real palettes, including ClickUp's brand system and Yahoo's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #2b181a
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #2b181a as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 16.82:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.25:1 | 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 #2b181a 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
#2b181a reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #2b181a
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 #2b181a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/2b181a-c49d9c-62cb8e-2d241f-f1e9ee?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