Newsprint
Open in tool →Ink-black on warm paper with a single red — the broadsheet hierarchy that lets typography lead.
Color
#161817
#161817
hex
#161817rgb
rgb(22, 24, 23)hsl
hsl(150, 4%, 9%)oklch
oklch(0.206 0.004 164.7)Closest name: Black Stallion (#0e191c)Relative luminance 0.0089
Colors that go with #161817
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 #161817 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #161817 in 18 real palettes, including Warner Bros.'s brand system and Trailhead, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped23 real palettes, including CVS's brand system and Signal's brand system put Blue beside #161817, as the supporting colour.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #161817 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 #161817, as the accent.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped5 real palettes, including State Farm's brand system and Woodsmoke put Brown beside #161817, as the supporting colour.
Burgundy #800020
shipped4 real palettes, including Qatar Airways's brand system and Mailchimp's brand system put Burgundy beside #161817, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #161817 in 6 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Velvet, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #161817
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #161817 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 17.84:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.18:1 | 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 #161817 as the background.
Brands using this color
- Guinnesstext · #171717 · Δ0.408
- Next.jstext · #171717 · Δ0.408
- GitHubprimary · #181717 · Δ0.511
- Airtabletext · #161616 · Δ0.724
- Beatsprimary · #161616 · Δ0.724
- Beatstext · #161616 · Δ0.724
- CircleCItext · #161616 · Δ0.724
- IBMprimary · #161616 · Δ0.724
- IBMtext · #161616 · Δ0.724
- Huaweitext · #191919 · Δ0.788
- Notionprimary · #191919 · Δ0.788
- Pumaprimary · #191919 · Δ0.788
- Pumatext · #191919 · Δ0.788
- Yahooprimary · #1a1919 · Δ0.955
- Yahootext · #1a1919 · Δ0.955
- Tinderprimary · #1b1817 · Δ0.971
- Tindertext · #1b1817 · Δ0.971
- Liquid Deathprimary · #151515 · Δ1.131
- Retooltext · #151515 · Δ1.131
- Rivianprimary · #151515 · Δ1.131
- Riviantext · #151515 · Δ1.131
- CVSprimary · #1a1a19 · Δ1.138
- CVStext · #1a1a19 · Δ1.138
- Netlifytext · #181a1c · Δ1.161
- JetBrainstext · #19191c · Δ1.174
- Hingetext · #1a1a1a · Δ1.192
- Louis Vuittonprimary · #1a1a1a · Δ1.192
- Louis Vuittontext · #1a1a1a · Δ1.192
- Spectrumprimary · #1a1a1a · Δ1.192
- Spectrumtext · #1a1a1a · Δ1.192
- Warner Bros.primary · #1a1a1a · Δ1.192
- Warner Bros.text · #1a1a1a · Δ1.192
- Characterprimary · #11181c · Δ1.263
- Charactertext · #11181c · Δ1.263
- Philipsprimary · #15191e · Δ1.318
- Philipstext · #15191e · Δ1.318
- Splinetext · #191a1d · Δ1.399
- PlayStation® Official Site: Consoles, Games, Accessories & MoreSony Interactive Entertainmentprimary · #181416 · Δ1.469
- Abstractprimary · #141414 · Δ1.562
- LEGOprimary · #141414 · Δ1.562
- LEGOtext · #141414 · Δ1.562
- Runwayprimary · #141414 · Δ1.562
- T-Mobileprimary · #141414 · Δ1.562
- T-Mobiletext · #141414 · Δ1.562
- Wells Fargotext · #141414 · Δ1.562
- Anthropictext · #141413 · Δ1.591
- Logitechprimary · #1b1b1b · Δ1.611
- Logitechtext · #1b1b1b · Δ1.611
- N26text · #1b1b1b · Δ1.611
- NASAtext · #1b1b1b · Δ1.611
- Signalprimary · #1b1b1b · Δ1.611
- Signaltext · #1b1b1b · Δ1.611
- Xfinityprimary · #141417 · Δ1.625
- Xfinitytext · #141417 · Δ1.625
- Vimeotext · #141a20 · Δ1.698
- Gustoprimary · #1c1b1a · Δ1.706
- Gustotext · #1c1b1a · Δ1.706
- Fitbitprimary · #191c1d · Δ1.774
- Fitbittext · #191c1d · Δ1.774
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.
Ink & Paper
Open in tool →Two greys and one ink-blue link color: the palette of a well-set book page.
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.
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.
Coffee Bar
Open in tool →Espresso and caramel: a dark-roast palette that photographs latte art beautifully.
Atelier
Open in tool →Black on bone with a whisper of gold: the runway default that lets garments carry the color.
Studio Grey
Open in tool →A pure greyscale with a single electric blue — the portfolio palette that makes work look considered.
Fireside
Open in tool →Cranberry, pine and brass on a charcoal night — the holiday palette without the clichés, because the surface is cold.
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
#161817 reads as neutral, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #161817
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 #161817 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/161817-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?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