Newsprint
Open in tool →Ink-black on warm paper with a single red — the broadsheet hierarchy that lets typography lead.
Color
#1e151a
#1e151a
hex
#1e151argb
rgb(30, 21, 26)hsl
hsl(327, 18%, 10%)oklch
oklch(0.209 0.017 344.2)Closest name: Bats Cloak (#1f1518)Relative luminance 0.0089
Colors that go with #1e151a
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 #1e151a without the hard edge of pure #000.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #1e151a in 18 real palettes, including Warner Bros.'s brand system and Trailhead, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped23 real palettes, including Warp's brand system and CVS's brand system put Blue beside #1e151a, as the supporting colour.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #1e151a 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 #1e151a, as the accent.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped5 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and State Farm's brand system put Brown beside #1e151a, as the accent.
Burgundy #800020
shipped4 real palettes, including Qatar Airways's brand system and Mailchimp's brand system put Burgundy beside #1e151a, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #1e151a in 6 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Velvet, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #1e151a
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #1e151a as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 17.84:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.18:1 | 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 #1e151a as the background.
Brands using this color
- Tinderprimary · #1b1817 · Δ1.519
- Tindertext · #1b1817 · Δ1.519
- PlayStation® Official Site: Consoles, Games, Accessories & MoreSony Interactive Entertainmentprimary · #181416 · Δ1.567
- JetBrainstext · #19191c · Δ1.601
- GitHubprimary · #181717 · Δ1.631
- Yahooprimary · #1a1919 · Δ1.683
- Yahootext · #1a1919 · Δ1.683
- Huaweitext · #191919 · Δ1.776
- Notionprimary · #191919 · Δ1.776
- Pumaprimary · #191919 · Δ1.776
- Pumatext · #191919 · Δ1.776
- Guinnesstext · #171717 · Δ1.784
- Next.jstext · #171717 · Δ1.784
- Warptext · #1a1522 · Δ1.79
- Splinetext · #191a1d · Δ1.873
- Hingetext · #1a1a1a · Δ1.927
- Louis Vuittonprimary · #1a1a1a · Δ1.927
- Louis Vuittontext · #1a1a1a · Δ1.927
- Spectrumprimary · #1a1a1a · Δ1.927
- Spectrumtext · #1a1a1a · Δ1.927
- Warner Bros.primary · #1a1a1a · Δ1.927
- Warner Bros.text · #1a1a1a · Δ1.927
- Airtabletext · #161616 · Δ1.945
- Beatsprimary · #161616 · Δ1.945
- Beatstext · #161616 · Δ1.945
- CircleCItext · #161616 · Δ1.945
- IBMprimary · #161616 · Δ1.945
- IBMtext · #161616 · Δ1.945
- Pinteresttext · #211922 · Δ1.955
- Netlifytext · #181a1c · Δ1.985
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.
Studio Grey
Open in tool →A pure greyscale with a single electric blue — the portfolio palette that makes work look considered.
Bramble
Open in tool →Blackberry and bark with a wheat highlight on a plum-black surface — late-autumn, quiet, slightly gothic.
Stone
Open in tool →Stone greys with a faint warmth — Tailwind's stone scale used as a whole palette: interfaces that want to disappear.
Fonts for this mood
#1e151a reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #1e151a
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 #1e151a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/1e151a-c19fae-66cb62-2d1f21-f1e9f1?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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