Newsprint
Open in tool →Ink-black on warm paper with a single red — the broadsheet hierarchy that lets typography lead.
Color
#191517
#191517
hex
#191517rgb
rgb(25, 21, 23)hsl
hsl(330, 9%, 9%)oklch
oklch(0.201 0.007 346.1)Closest name: Violet Void (#1a161d)Relative luminance 0.008
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #191517 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 18.09:1 | 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 #191517 as the background.
Brands using this color
- Airtabletext · #161616 · Δ0.757
- CircleCItext · #161616 · Δ0.757
- GitHubprimary · #181717 · Δ0.759
- Next.jstext · #171717 · Δ0.816
- Retooltext · #151515 · Δ0.935
- Runwayprimary · #141414 · Δ1.257
- Anthropictext · #141413 · Δ1.362
- Notionprimary · #191919 · Δ1.42
- JetBrainstext · #19191c · Δ1.5
- Netlifytext · #181a1c · Δ1.788
- Splinetext · #191a1d · Δ1.859
- Lemon Squeezytext · #121217 · Δ1.916
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
#191517 reads as muted, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #191517
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 #191517 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/191517-c49cab-62cb64-2d1f20-f1e9f1?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