Chalkboard
Open in tool →Slate green with chalk cream and a coral — nostalgic without being twee.
Color
#162d2a
#162d2a
hex
#162d2argb
rgb(22, 45, 42)hsl
hsl(172, 34%, 13%)oklch
oklch(0.277 0.03 185)Closest name: Cinder (#242a2e)Relative luminance 0.0221
Colors that go with #162d2a
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 #162d2a without the hard edge of pure #000.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #162d2a in 18 real palettes, including McDonald's's brand system and Beach Hut, as the lead colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped24 real palettes, including Readymag's brand system and Headspace's brand system put Blue beside #162d2a, as the supporting colour.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #162d2a in 7 real palettes, including ClickUp's brand system and Yahoo's brand system, as the lead colour.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped7 real palettes, including Rain Garden and Graphite Mono put Blush Pink beside #162d2a, as the accent.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped4 real palettes, including Typewriter and Woodsmoke put Brown beside #162d2a, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #162d2a in 5 real palettes, including Chalkboard and Coastal, as the lead colour.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #162d2a: 10 real palettes, including Paper & Pine and Clean Beauty, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #162d2a
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #162d2a as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 14.55:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.44:1 | 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 #162d2a as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#162d2a reads as muted, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #162d2a
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 #162d2a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/162d2a-a2bebe-d459a5-1f292d-e9f1ec?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