Brand colors

Trader Joe's colors

Trader Joe's's 5 brand colors as structured tokens — every role's hex with copy buttons, contrast pairs measured against the brand's own surface, and CSS / DTCG downloads. Ask your agent for a palette inspired by Trader Joe's via the colors MCP.

Extracted
Version
2
Verified from the live site at traderjoes.com on 2 September 2026 (version 2).

Role tokens

  • primary#212529 · Charcoal
  • secondary#834427 · Saddle Brown
  • accent#af0006 · Firebrick
  • surface#ffffff · White
  • text#212529 · Charcoal

Contrast pairs

PairRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaprimary on surface
15.43:1passpasspass
Aasecondary on surface
7.44:1passpasspass
Aaaccent on surface
7.43:1passpasspass
Aatext on surface
15.43:1passpasspass
Aatext on secondary
2.07:1failfailfailAA: text #c6ccd2 (4.6:1)
Aatext on accent
2.08:1failfailfailAA: text #c6ccd2 (4.59:1)

Measured against the brand's own surface where it has one; fixes move lightness only so they stay on-hue.

Download

The same tokens as CSS custom properties, a Tailwind v4 @theme block, and a W3C DTCG color group — or fetch tokens.json / brand.css for the full brand.

css · traderjoes-com-colors.css
:root {
  --color-primary: #212529;
  --color-secondary: #834427;
  --color-accent: #af0006;
  --color-surface: #ffffff;
  --color-text: #212529;
}
tailwind · theme.css
/* Trader Joe's — Tailwind v4 theme. Import after "tailwindcss". */
@theme {
  --color-primary: #212529;
  --color-secondary: #834427;
  --color-accent: #af0006;
  --color-surface: #ffffff;
  --color-text: #212529;
}
dtcg · traderjoes-com-colors.tokens.json
{
  "$description": "Trader Joe's brand colors",
  "color": {
    "primary": {
      "$type": "color",
      "$value": "#212529"
    },
    "secondary": {
      "$type": "color",
      "$value": "#834427"
    },
    "accent": {
      "$type": "color",
      "$value": "#af0006"
    },
    "surface": {
      "$type": "color",
      "$value": "#ffffff"
    },
    "text": {
      "$type": "color",
      "$value": "#212529"
    }
  }
}

Similar brand palettes

Public brands whose primary sits closest on the hue wheel.

mcpConnect your agent — riff on Trader Joe's
live endpoint

Point 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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

build a palette inspired by Trader Joe's for a retail startup — keep the feel, change the primary, and give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/212529-834427-af0006-ffffff?lock=0

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