Color
#280b18
#280b18rgb(40, 11, 24)hsl(333, 57%, 10%)oklch(0.203 0.052 354.7)Colors that go with #280b18
Charcoal, Dark Olive Green and Rust 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #280b18: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
triadicshippedDark Olive Green completes a triad with #280b18 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Rust #b7410e
analogousshippedRust is #280b18's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Sea Green #2e8b57
split-complementshippedSea Green is a split-complement of #280b18: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Steel Blue #4682b4
triadicshippedSteel Blue completes a triad with #280b18 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Teal #008080
complementaryshippedTeal sits directly opposite #280b18 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #280b18 in 18 real palettes, including Heatwave and Lemon Squeezy's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped22 real palettes, including Warp's brand system and CVS's brand system put Blue beside #280b18, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #280b18
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #280b18 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 18.24:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.15:1 | 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 #280b18 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
#280b18 reads as warm, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #280b18 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/280b18-c49ca9-62cb69-2d1f20-f1e9f0?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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