Newsprint
Open in tool →Ink-black on warm paper with a single red — the broadsheet hierarchy that lets typography lead.
Color
#191514
#191514
hex
#191514rgb
rgb(25, 21, 20)hsl
hsl(12, 11%, 9%)oklch
oklch(0.2 0.007 34.3)Closest name: King Kong (#161410)Relative luminance 0.0079
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #191514 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 18.12:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.16:1 | 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 #191514 as the background.
Brands using this color
- Airtabletext · #161616 · Δ0.681
- CircleCItext · #161616 · Δ0.681
- GitHubprimary · #181717 · Δ0.774
- Retooltext · #151515 · Δ0.811
- Next.jstext · #171717 · Δ0.816
- Runwayprimary · #141414 · Δ1.119
- Anthropictext · #141413 · Δ1.133
- Notionprimary · #191919 · Δ1.493
- JetBrainstext · #19191c · Δ1.783
- Netlifytext · #181a1c · Δ1.987
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.
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.
Estate
Open in tool →Bronze on charcoal signals premium listings; the silver accent handles secondary detail without adding color.
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
#191514 reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #191514
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 #191514 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/191514-c4a99c-62cbad-2d281f-f1e9ec?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