Chalkboard
Open in tool →Slate green with chalk cream and a coral — nostalgic without being twee.
Color
#1e2e2e
#1e2e2e
hex
#1e2e2ergb
rgb(30, 46, 46)hsl
hsl(180, 21%, 15%)oklch
oklch(0.287 0.021 196)Closest name: Cinder (#242a2e)Relative luminance 0.0243
Colors that go with #1e2e2e
Amber, Blue and Blue Violet 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.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #1e2e2e in 18 real palettes, including McDonald's's brand system and Beach Hut, as the lead colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped23 real palettes, including Readymag's brand system and Headspace's brand system put Blue beside #1e2e2e, as the supporting colour.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #1e2e2e in 5 real palettes, including ClickUp's brand system and Yahoo's brand system, as the lead colour.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped7 real palettes, including Rain Garden and Graphite Mono put Blush Pink beside #1e2e2e, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #1e2e2e in 5 real palettes, including Chalkboard and Coastal, as the lead colour.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #1e2e2e: 10 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Coastal, as the lead colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped8 real palettes, including Darkroom and Forest Floor put Champagne beside #1e2e2e, as the surface under it.
White Smoke #f5f5f5
neutralWhite Smoke is the near-white surface #1e2e2e was made for — maximum legibility with no colour cast to argue with.
Real palettes that use #1e2e2e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #1e2e2e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 14.14:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.49:1 | 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 #1e2e2e as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
Rain Garden
Open in tool →Wet-leaf teal and moss with a soft peach — an overcast spring, calmer than the bright version and better for long reading.
Still Water
Open in tool →Dusty teal and mist with a sand accent — low chroma, low contrast between colours, high contrast for text: the recipe for calm.
Fonts for this mood
#1e2e2e reads as cool, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #1e2e2e
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 #1e2e2e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/1e2e2e-a2bbbe-d45994-1f272d-e9f1ed?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