Gallery
Open in tool →Near-monochrome with one burnt-orange highlight — an art director's default because it never competes with the work.
Color
#16131b
#16131b
hex
#16131brgb
rgb(22, 19, 27)hsl
hsl(263, 17%, 9%)oklch
oklch(0.194 0.017 302)Closest name: Back in Black (#16141c)Relative luminance 0.0072
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #16131b as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 18.37:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.14:1 | 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 #16131b as the background.
Brands using this color
- Railwaytext · #13111c · Δ1.076
- Lemon Squeezytext · #121217 · Δ1.209
- Retooltext · #151515 · Δ1.659
- Runwayprimary · #141414 · Δ1.675
- Warptext · #1a1522 · Δ1.71
- Airtabletext · #161616 · Δ1.759
- CircleCItext · #161616 · Δ1.759
- Anthropictext · #141413 · Δ1.871
- Next.jstext · #171717 · Δ1.957
- Chasetext · #101820 · Δ1.99
- GitHubprimary · #181717 · Δ1.994
Palettes built around it
Console Light
Open in tool →A sober docs palette: one blue for interactive, one green for success, zinc greys for everything else.
Graphite
Open in tool →A greyscale system with a single amber — the accent does all the work, so allow one per screen.
Atelier
Open in tool →Black on bone with a whisper of gold: the runway default that lets garments carry the color.
Estate
Open in tool →Bronze on charcoal signals premium listings; the silver accent handles secondary detail without adding color.
Sunset Boulevard
Open in tool →Coral, apricot and magenta on aubergine — the gradient sunset every event brand wants, decomposed into flat tokens.
Fonts for this mood
#16131b reads as cool, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #16131b
live endpointPoint any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #16131b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/16131b-b09cc4-dfd04e-2b1f2d-e9eaf1?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