Newsprint
Open in tool →Ink-black on warm paper with a single red — the broadsheet hierarchy that lets typography lead.
Color
#16191d
#16191d
hex
#16191drgb
rgb(22, 25, 29)hsl
hsl(214, 14%, 10%)oklch
oklch(0.212 0.009 255.6)Closest name: Eigengrau (#16161d)Relative luminance 0.0095
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #16191d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 17.63:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.19:1 | 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 #16191d as the background.
Brands using this color
- JetBrainstext · #19191c · Δ0.574
- Netlifytext · #181a1c · Δ0.619
- Vimeotext · #141a20 · Δ0.643
- Splinetext · #191a1d · Δ0.704
- Notionprimary · #191919 · Δ0.927
- Next.jstext · #171717 · Δ1.175
- GitHubprimary · #181717 · Δ1.185
- Chasetext · #101820 · Δ1.3
- N26text · #1b1b1b · Δ1.365
- Airtabletext · #161616 · Δ1.494
- CircleCItext · #161616 · Δ1.494
- Asanasecondary · #151b26 · Δ1.724
- Retooltext · #151515 · Δ1.866
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.
Learning App
Open in tool →Green, blue and orange at full saturation: the gamified-learning look, where every color is a reward.
Studio Grey
Open in tool →A pure greyscale with a single electric blue — the portfolio palette that makes work look considered.
Fonts for this mood
#16191d reads as cool, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #16191d
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 #16191d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/16191d-9ca9c4-df5a4e-1f1f2d-e9f0f1?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