Olive Grove
Open in tool →Olive and straw with a rust accent — Mediterranean and unhurried; good for food, wine and hospitality.
Color
#282a19
#282a19
hex
#282a19rgb
rgb(40, 42, 25)hsl
hsl(67, 25%, 13%)oklch
oklch(0.278 0.029 113.8)Closest name: Marshland (#2b2e26)Relative luminance 0.0218
Colors that go with #282a19
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 #282a19 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #282a19 in 18 real palettes, including McDonald's's brand system and Wikipedia's brand system, as the lead colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped23 real palettes, including Headspace's brand system and Readymag's brand system put Blue beside #282a19, as the accent.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #282a19 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 Rain Garden put Blush Pink beside #282a19, as the accent.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped4 real palettes, including Typewriter and Woodsmoke put Brown beside #282a19, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #282a19 in 5 real palettes, including Chalkboard and Kiln, as the lead colour.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #282a19: 10 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Paper & Pine, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #282a19
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #282a19 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 14.63:1 | 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 #282a19 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Riverbed
Open in tool →Wet-stone green and pebble grey with a copper accent — an earth palette that leans cool, for outdoor and wellness.
Meadow
Open in tool →Fresh green, buttercup and a wildflower pink — spring at full saturation; the leaf-dark text does the anchoring.
Fonts for this mood
#282a19 reads as muted, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #282a19
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 #282a19 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/282a19-b8bea2-4e83df-262d1f-f1eee9?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