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
#31252d
#31252d
hex
#31252drgb
rgb(49, 37, 45)hsl
hsl(320, 14%, 17%)oklch
oklch(0.282 0.023 338.8)Closest name: Smoky Charcoal (#34282c)Relative luminance 0.0217
Colors that go with #31252d
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 #31252d without the hard edge of pure #000.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #31252d in 18 real palettes, including McDonald's's brand system and Beach Hut, as the lead colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped23 real palettes, including Readymag's brand system and Headspace's brand system put Blue beside #31252d, as the supporting colour.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #31252d in 7 real palettes, including ClickUp's brand system and Yahoo's brand system, as the lead colour.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped7 real palettes, including Blush and Graphite Mono put Blush Pink beside #31252d, as the supporting colour.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped4 real palettes, including Typewriter and Woodsmoke put Brown beside #31252d, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #31252d in 5 real palettes, including Kiln and Polaroid, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #31252d: 10 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #31252d
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #31252d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 14.65:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.43:1 | 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 #31252d as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#31252d reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #31252d
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 #31252d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/31252d-c19fb2-72cb62-2d1f23-f0e9f1?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