Color

#281a28

#281a28
hex#281a28
rgbrgb(40, 26, 40)
hslhsl(300, 21%, 13%)
oklchoklch(0.242 0.033 326.5)
Closest name: Black Cherry (#2c1620)Relative luminance 0.0134

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#1a281a

#211a28 · #281a21

#28281a · #1a2828

Split-complementary

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#21281a · #1a2821

#28211a · #1a281a · #1a2128

Contrast

#281a28 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
16.55:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.27:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #976397 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #b28ab2 as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #878787 (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #ababab (7.21:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #281a28 as the background.

Brands using this color

Fonts for this mood

#281a28 reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #281a28
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 #281a28 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/281a28-c19fbd-95cb62-2d1f27-ede9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md