brandsweets

Color

#1e282a

#1e282a
hex#1e282a
rgbrgb(30, 40, 42)
hslhsl(190, 17%, 14%)
oklchoklch(0.268 0.014 211.2)
Closest name: Black Pearl (#1e272c)Relative luminance 0.0196
CoolMutedDarkLuxuryBold
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Colors that go with #1e282a

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.

Real palettes that use #1e282a

American Eagle· brand7-Eleven· brandAMD· brandBoeing· brand

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

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1e282a2a201e

#2a201e

Analogous

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1e282a1e2a261e222a

#1e2a26 · #1e222a

Triadic

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1e282a2a1e28282a1e

#2a1e28 · #282a1e

Split-complementary

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1e282a2a1e222a261e

#2a1e22 · #2a261e

Tetradic

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1e282a261e2a2a201e222a1e

#261e2a · #2a201e · #222a1e

Contrast

#1e282a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
15.08:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.39:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #5b7a80 as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #7c9ca2 as the text (7.13:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #8f8f8f (4.66:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #b3b3b3 (7.19:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #1e282a as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#1e282a reads as cool, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

Luxury fonts →Bold fonts →
mcpConnect your agent — build around #1e282a
live endpoint

Point 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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

›analyze #1e282a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/1e282a-a2b6be-df4e7c-1f252d-e9f1ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md