Color

#281a01

#281a01
hex#281a01
rgbrgb(40, 26, 1)
hslhsl(38, 95%, 8%)
oklchoklch(0.23 0.046 80.1)
Closest name: Burnt Coffee (#271b10)Relative luminance 0.0119

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#010f28

#280601 · #232801

#01281a · #1a0128

Split-complementary

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#012328 · #060128

#012806 · #010f28 · #280123

Contrast

#281a01 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
16.96:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.24:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #a46904 as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #d18605 as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #858585 (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #a8a8a8 (7.13:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #281a01 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

Fonts for this mood

#281a01 reads as warm, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #281a01
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #281a01 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/281a01-c4ba9c-62bbcb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md