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.
Color
#2e6161
#2e6161
hex
#2e6161rgb
rgb(46, 97, 97)hsl
hsl(180, 36%, 28%)oklch
oklch(0.458 0.055 195.4)Closest name: Arctic Nights (#345c61)Relative luminance 0.0999
Colors that go with #2e6161
Firebrick, Blue and Cadet 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.
Firebrick #b22222
complementaryshippedFirebrick sits directly opposite #2e6161 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Warp's brand system and Rolex's brand system put Blue beside #2e6161, as the supporting colour.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #2e6161: 4 real palettes, including Alpine and Open House, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Darkroom and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #2e6161, as the surface under it.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #2e6161: 4 real palettes, including Desert Road and Clay & Linen, as the lead colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #2e6161 in 7 real palettes, including Gemstone and Codecademy's brand system, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #2e6161: 10 real palettes, including HP's brand system and The New York Times's brand system, as the accent.
White Smoke #f5f5f5
neutralWhite Smoke is the surface for #2e6161: a clean near-white with no warm cast, so the cool hue stays clear instead of drifting muddy.
Real palettes that use #2e6161
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #2e6161 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 7:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 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 #2e6161 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
#2e6161 reads as cool, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #2e6161
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 #2e6161 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/2e6161-a2bbbe-d45994-1f272d-e9f1ed?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