Color

#281f0b

#281f0b
hex#281f0b
rgbrgb(40, 31, 11)
hslhsl(41, 57%, 10%)
oklchoklch(0.245 0.035 85.4)
Closest name: Burnt Coffee (#271b10)Relative luminance 0.0146

Colors that go with #281f0b

Charcoal, Royal Blue and Sienna 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.

Real palettes that use #281f0b

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#0b1428

#28100b · #23280b

#0b281f · #1f0b28

Split-complementary

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#0b2328 · #100b28

#0b2810 · #0b1428 · #280b23

Contrast

#281f0b as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
16.27:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.29:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #947229 as the text (4.7:1)
  • AAA: use #bc9134 as the text (7.24:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #878787 (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #ababab (7.08:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #281f0b 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

#281f0b reads as warm, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #281f0b
live endpoint

Point 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.

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

analyze #281f0b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/281f0b-c4bc9c-62b6cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md