Gallery
Open in tool →Near-monochrome with one burnt-orange highlight — an art director's default because it never competes with the work.
Color
#1b151e
#1b151e
hex
#1b151ergb
rgb(27, 21, 30)hsl
hsl(280, 18%, 10%)oklch
oklch(0.207 0.02 314.4)Closest name: Violet Void (#1a161d)Relative luminance 0.0086
Colors that go with #1b151e
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 #1b151e without the hard edge of pure #000.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #1b151e in 18 real palettes, including Warner Bros.'s brand system and Lemon Squeezy's brand system, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped23 real palettes, including Warp's brand system and CVS's brand system put Blue beside #1b151e, as the supporting colour.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #1b151e 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 #1b151e, as the accent.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped5 real palettes, including State Farm's brand system and Woodsmoke put Brown beside #1b151e, as the supporting colour.
Burgundy #800020
shipped4 real palettes, including Qatar Airways's brand system and Mailchimp's brand system put Burgundy beside #1b151e, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #1b151e in 6 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Velvet, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #1b151e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #1b151e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 17.91:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.17:1 | 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 #1b151e as the background.
Brands using this color
- Warptext · #1a1522 · Δ0.831
- Qatar Airwayssecondary · #181825 · Δ1.546
- JetBrainstext · #19191c · Δ1.664
- PlayStation® Official Site: Consoles, Games, Accessories & MoreSony Interactive Entertainmentprimary · #181416 · Δ1.727
- Philipsprimary · #15191e · Δ1.774
- Philipstext · #15191e · Δ1.774
- GitHubprimary · #181717 · Δ1.908
- Splinetext · #191a1d · Δ1.918
- Guinnesstext · #171717 · Δ1.986
- Next.jstext · #171717 · Δ1.986
Palettes built around it
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.
Bramble
Open in tool →Blackberry and bark with a wheat highlight on a plum-black surface — late-autumn, quiet, slightly gothic.
Fireside
Open in tool →Cranberry, pine and brass on a charcoal night — the holiday palette without the clichés, because the surface is cold.
Fonts for this mood
#1b151e reads as cool, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #1b151e
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 #1b151e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/1b151e-b99fc1-b8cb62-2d1f2c-ebe9f1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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