Bakery
Open in tool →Crust browns and butter on a flour-white surface — soft, appetizing, and nothing artificial.
Color
#35261c
#35261c
hex
#35261crgb
rgb(53, 38, 28)hsl
hsl(24, 31%, 16%)oklch
oklch(0.283 0.029 54.9)Closest name: Ethereal Espresso (#3e2723)Relative luminance 0.0223
Colors that go with #35261c
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 #35261c without the hard edge of pure #000.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #35261c 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 Headspace's brand system and Readymag's brand system put Blue beside #35261c, as the accent.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #35261c in 6 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 #35261c, as the supporting colour.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped4 real palettes, including Typewriter and Woodsmoke put Brown beside #35261c, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #35261c in 5 real palettes, including Kiln and Polaroid, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #35261c: 10 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and SoFi's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #35261c
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #35261c as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 14.53:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.45:1 | 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 #35261c as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Homestead
Open in tool →Timber and olive for homes that photograph in golden hour; nothing here competes with a good listing photo.
Mushroom
Open in tool →Taupe, oat and a sage accent — the quiet earth palette: almost neutral, with just enough colour to feel alive.
Sepia Mono
Open in tool →A single warm brown from espresso to oat — the sepia scale as a working palette, not a filter.
Oatmeal
Open in tool →Four warm greys from bark to oat — the neutral palette that photographs well and never argues with a product shot.
Fonts for this mood
#35261c reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #35261c
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 #35261c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/35261c-c4b19c-62cbc2-2d2b1f-f1e9ea?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