Golden Hour
Open in tool →Apricot into coral into plum — a sunset flattened to three tokens, with the plum doubling as the twilight text colour.
Color
#281b22
#281b22
hex
#281b22rgb
rgb(40, 27, 34)hsl
hsl(328, 19%, 13%)oklch
oklch(0.241 0.024 345.5)Closest name: Black Cherry (#2c1620)Relative luminance 0.0135
Colors that go with #281b22
Charcoal, Amber and Blue 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 text near-black that reads cleanly against #281b22 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #281b22 in 15 real palettes, including Wikipedia's brand system and Warner Bros.'s brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Blue #0000ff
shippedBlue is paired with #281b22 in 23 real palettes, including Bumble's brand system and Signal's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #281b22 in 10 real palettes, including ClickUp's brand system and Yahoo's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shippedBlush Pink is paired with #281b22 in 6 real palettes, including Graphite Mono and Estate, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Brown #a52a2a
shippedBrown is paired with #281b22 in 5 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Typewriter, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #281b22 in 6 real palettes, including Kiln and Coffee Bar, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedCadet Blue is paired with #281b22 in 9 real palettes, including Diner and Paper & Pine, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #281b22
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #281b22 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 16.53:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.27:1 | 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 #281b22 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#281b22 reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #281b22
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #281b22 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/281b22-c19fad-64cb62-2d1f21-f1e9f1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md