Color

#281a2e

#281a2e
hex#281a2e
rgbrgb(40, 26, 46)
hslhsl(282, 28%, 14%)
oklchoklch(0.245 0.042 315.4)
Closest name: Eclipse Elixir (#1f2133)Relative luminance 0.0139

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#202e1a

#1e1a2e · #2e1a2a

#2e281a · #1a2e28

Split-complementary

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#2a2e1a · #1a2e1e

#2e1e1a · #202e1a · #1a2a2e

Contrast

#281a2e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
16.44:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.28:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #9262a7 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #ad89bd as the text (7.09:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #878787 (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #ababab (7.16:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #281a2e 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

#281a2e reads as cool, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #281a2e
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 #281a2e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/281a2e-ba9fc1-b4cb62-2d1f2b-ebe9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md