Color

#28202c

#28202c
hex#28202c
rgbrgb(40, 32, 44)
hslhsl(280, 16%, 15%)
oklchoklch(0.258 0.025 314.4)
Closest name: Black Velvet (#222233)Relative luminance 0.0167

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#242c20

#22202c · #2c202a

#2c2820 · #202c28

Split-complementary

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#2a2c20 · #202c22

#2c2220 · #242c20 · #202a2c

Contrast

#28202c as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
15.75:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.33:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #866b94 as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #a38fae as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #8a8a8a (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #adadad (7.02:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #28202c 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

#28202c reads as cool, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #28202c
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 #28202c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/28202c-b99fc1-b8cb62-2d1f2c-ebe9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md