Color

#23161e

#23161e
hex#23161e
rgbrgb(35, 22, 30)
hslhsl(323, 23%, 11%)
oklchoklch(0.22 0.025 341.9)
Closest name: Bats Cloak (#1f1518)Relative luminance 0.0102

Colors that go with #23161e

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 →

#16231b

#211623 · #231617

#1e2316 · #161e23

Split-complementary

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#172316 · #162321

#232116 · #16231b · #161723

Contrast

#23161e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
17.43:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.2:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #9d6286 as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #b68ba6 as the text (7.23:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #828282 (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #a6a6a6 (7.16:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #23161e as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#23161e reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #23161e
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 #23161e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/23161e-c19fb0-6dcb62-2d1f22-f0e9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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