Newsprint
Open in tool →Ink-black on warm paper with a single red — the broadsheet hierarchy that lets typography lead.
Color
#161810
#161810
hex
#161810rgb
rgb(22, 24, 16)hsl
hsl(75, 20%, 8%)oklch
oklch(0.204 0.016 119.2)Closest name: Soulless (#1b150d)Relative luminance 0.0086
Colors that go with #161810
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 #161810 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #161810 in 18 real palettes, including Trailhead and Warner Bros.'s brand system, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped23 real palettes, including CVS's brand system and Signal's brand system put Blue beside #161810, as the supporting colour.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #161810 in 10 real palettes, including Yahoo's brand system and Prepare your taste buds...'s brand system, as the supporting colour.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped5 real palettes, including Estate and Cartier's brand system put Blush Pink beside #161810, as the accent.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped5 real palettes, including State Farm's brand system and Woodsmoke put Brown beside #161810, as the supporting colour.
Burgundy #800020
shipped4 real palettes, including Mailchimp's brand system and Qatar Airways's brand system put Burgundy beside #161810, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #161810 in 6 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Velvet, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #161810
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #161810 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 17.91:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.17:1 | 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 #161810 as the background.
Brands using this color
- Guinnesstext · #171717 · Δ1.559
- Next.jstext · #171717 · Δ1.559
- Airtabletext · #161616 · Δ1.602
- Beatsprimary · #161616 · Δ1.602
- Beatstext · #161616 · Δ1.602
- CircleCItext · #161616 · Δ1.602
- IBMprimary · #161616 · Δ1.602
- IBMtext · #161616 · Δ1.602
- GitHubprimary · #181717 · Δ1.608
- Tinderprimary · #1b1817 · Δ1.754
- Tindertext · #1b1817 · Δ1.754
- Liquid Deathprimary · #151515 · Δ1.76
- Retooltext · #151515 · Δ1.76
- Rivianprimary · #151515 · Δ1.76
- Riviantext · #151515 · Δ1.76
- Huaweitext · #191919 · Δ1.823
- Notionprimary · #191919 · Δ1.823
- Pumaprimary · #191919 · Δ1.823
- Pumatext · #191919 · Δ1.823
- Anthropictext · #141413 · Δ1.892
- Yahooprimary · #1a1919 · Δ1.917
- Yahootext · #1a1919 · Δ1.917
- CVSprimary · #1a1a19 · Δ1.92
- CVStext · #1a1a19 · Δ1.92
- Sweetgreenprimary · #0e150e · Δ1.967
- Sweetgreentext · #0e150e · Δ1.967
Palettes built around it
Gallery
Open in tool →Near-monochrome with one burnt-orange highlight — an art director's default because it never competes with the work.
Launch Orange
Open in tool →Orange is the rarest SaaS primary, which is exactly why it stands out on a pricing page; cyan keeps it from feeling like a hardware store.
Stone
Open in tool →Stone greys with a faint warmth — Tailwind's stone scale used as a whole palette: interfaces that want to disappear.
Fonts for this mood
#161810 reads as muted, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #161810
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 #161810 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/161810-b4bea2-4e70df-242d1f-f1efe9?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