Color

#21171e

#21171e
hex#21171e
rgbrgb(33, 23, 30)
hslhsl(318, 18%, 11%)
oklchoklch(0.22 0.02 337.5)
Closest name: Bats Cloak (#1f1518)Relative luminance 0.0103

Colors that go with #21171e

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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#17211a

#1f1721 · #211719

#1e2117 · #171e21

Split-complementary

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#192117 · #17211f

#211f17 · #17211a · #171921

Contrast

#21171e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
17.41:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.21:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #966989 as the text (4.68:1)
  • AAA: use #b08da5 as the text (7.2:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #828282 (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #a6a6a6 (7.15:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #21171e as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#21171e reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #21171e
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 #21171e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/21171e-c19fb3-75cb62-2d1f23-f0e9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md