Color

#280b0e

#280b0e
hex#280b0e
rgbrgb(40, 11, 14)
hslhsl(354, 57%, 10%)
oklchoklch(0.199 0.049 16.4)
Closest name: Italian Roast (#221111)Relative luminance 0.0072

Colors that go with #280b0e

Charcoal, Sea Green and Sienna 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 #280b0e

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#0b2825

#280b1c · #28170b

#0e280b · #0b0e28

Split-complementary

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#0b2817 · #0b1c28

#1c280b · #0b2825 · #170b28

Contrast

#280b0e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
18.35:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.14:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #cd4754 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #db7b84 as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #808080 (4.65:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #a1a1a1 (7.1:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #280b0e as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Fonts for this mood

#280b0e reads as warm, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #280b0e
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 #280b0e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/280b0e-c49d9c-62cb8e-2d241f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md