Color

#281a2d

#281a2d
hex#281a2d
rgbrgb(40, 26, 45)
hslhsl(284, 27%, 14%)
oklchoklch(0.244 0.04 316.9)
Closest name: Black Cherry (#2c1620)Relative luminance 0.0138

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#1f2d1a

#1f1a2d · #2d1a29

#2d281a · #1a2d28

Split-complementary

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#292d1a · #1a2d1f

#2d1f1a · #1f2d1a · #1a292d

Contrast

#281a2d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
16.46:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.28:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #9464a6 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #af8abc as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #878787 (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #ababab (7.17:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #281a2d 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

#281a2d reads as cool, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #281a2d
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 #281a2d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/281a2d-bc9fc1-b1cb62-2d1f2b-ebe9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md