Bakery
Open in tool →Crust browns and butter on a flour-white surface — soft, appetizing, and nothing artificial.
Color
#3e261d
#3e261d
hex
#3e261drgb
rgb(62, 38, 29)hsl
hsl(16, 36%, 18%)oklch
oklch(0.296 0.04 41.3)Closest name: Ethereal Espresso (#3e2723)Relative luminance 0.025
Colors that go with #3e261d
Charcoal, Sienna and Steel 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 body-text near-black for #3e261d: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Sienna #a0522d
analogousshippedSienna is #3e261d's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Steel Blue #4682b4
split-complementshippedSteel Blue is a split-complement of #3e261d: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Teal #008080
complementaryshippedTeal sits directly opposite #3e261d 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 #3e261d in 7 real palettes, including Maple and Wikipedia's brand system, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped12 real palettes, including Tim Hortons's brand system and Burger King's brand system put Blue beside #3e261d, as the accent.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped6 real palettes, including Blush and Graphite Mono put Blush Pink beside #3e261d, as the supporting colour.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #3e261d in 6 real palettes, including Polaroid and Kiln, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #3e261d
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #3e261d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 14:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.5:1 | 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 #3e261d 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
#3e261d reads as warm, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #3e261d
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 #3e261d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/3e261d-c4ab9c-62cbb4-2d291f-f1e9eb?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