Sorbet
Open in tool →Peach, apricot and baby blue on white — a soft consumer-app palette that still gets AA text from a single dark ink.
Color
#282833
#282833
hex
#282833rgb
rgb(40, 40, 51)hsl
hsl(240, 12%, 18%)oklch
oklch(0.282 0.02 285)Closest name: Haiti (#2c2a35)Relative luminance 0.0221
Colors that go with #282833
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 #282833 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #282833 in 18 real palettes, including McDonald's's brand system and Beach Hut, as the lead colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped23 real palettes, including Readymag's brand system and Headspace's brand system put Blue beside #282833, as the supporting colour.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #282833 in 7 real palettes, including ClickUp's brand system and Yahoo's brand system, as the lead colour.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped7 real palettes, including Graphite Mono and Blush put Blush Pink beside #282833, as the accent.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped4 real palettes, including Typewriter and Woodsmoke put Brown beside #282833, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #282833 in 5 real palettes, including Coastal and Chalkboard, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #282833: 10 real palettes, including Dusk and Coastal, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #282833
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #282833 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 14.57:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.44:1 | 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 #282833 as the background.
Brands using this color
- Operaaccent · #252836 · Δ0.74
- Loomtext · #292a2e · Δ1.347
- Rotten Tomatoesprimary · #2a2c32 · Δ1.531
- Charactersecondary · #1f2937 · Δ1.562
- Vodafonetext · #25282b · Δ1.645
- American Eagleprimary · #24272a · Δ1.847
- American Eagletext · #24272a · Δ1.847
- dbt Labssecondary · #1e2939 · Δ1.848
- Nespressoprimary · #1f2533 · Δ1.967
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#282833 reads as cool, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #282833
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 #282833 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/282833-a19cc4-df994e-251f2d-e9edf1?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