Sorbet
Open in tool →Peach, apricot and baby blue on white — a soft consumer-app palette that still gets AA text from a single dark ink.
Color
#2d252c
#2d252c
hex
#2d252crgb
rgb(45, 37, 44)hsl
hsl(308, 10%, 16%)oklch
oklch(0.276 0.017 330.1)Closest name: Anthracite (#28282d)Relative luminance 0.0206
Colors that go with #2d252c
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 #2d252c without the hard edge of pure #000.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #2d252c in 18 real palettes, including McDonald's's brand system and Wikipedia's brand system, as the lead colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped23 real palettes, including Readymag's brand system and Headspace's brand system put Blue beside #2d252c, as the supporting colour.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #2d252c in 9 real palettes, including ClickUp's brand system and Yahoo's brand system, as the lead colour.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped7 real palettes, including Graphite Mono and Blush put Blush Pink beside #2d252c, as the accent.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped5 real palettes, including Typewriter and Woodsmoke put Brown beside #2d252c, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #2d252c in 6 real palettes, including Kiln and Chalkboard, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #2d252c: 10 real palettes, including Dusk and Clean Beauty, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #2d252c
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #2d252c as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 14.87:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.41:1 | 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 #2d252c as the background.
Brands using this color
- Fenty Beautyprimary · #2d2929 · Δ1.651
- Fenty Beautytext · #2d2929 · Δ1.651
- Gilletteprimary · #2b2929 · Δ1.675
- Gillettetext · #2b2929 · Δ1.675
- Loomtext · #292a2e · Δ1.708
- Readymagtext · #282828 · Δ1.718
- YouTubesecondary · #282828 · Δ1.718
- Superhumantext · #292827 · Δ1.768
- Vodafonetext · #25282b · Δ1.768
- McDonald'stext · #292929 · Δ1.779
- Zedtext · #242529 · Δ1.819
- American Eagleprimary · #24272a · Δ1.845
- American Eagletext · #24272a · Δ1.845
- Chevroletprimary · #262626 · Δ1.881
- Chevrolettext · #262626 · Δ1.881
- Cloudflaretext · #262626 · Δ1.881
- Obsidiantext · #262626 · Δ1.881
- Sveltetext · #262626 · Δ1.881
- Squarespaceprimary · #2a2a2a · Δ1.926
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#2d252c reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #2d252c
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 #2d252c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/2d252c-c19fb8-87cb62-2d1f25-eee9f1?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