Clean Beauty
Open in tool →Sage and clay on unbleached white — the nothing-to-hide palette for ingredient-led skincare.
Color
#282c2f
#282c2f
hex
#282c2frgb
rgb(40, 44, 47)hsl
hsl(206, 8%, 17%)oklch
oklch(0.29 0.008 240.1)Closest name: Caviar (#2b2c30)Relative luminance 0.0246
Colors that go with #282c2f
Amber, Blue and Blue Violet 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.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #282c2f in 15 real palettes, including Beach Hut and Wikipedia's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Blue #0000ff
shippedBlue is paired with #282c2f in 22 real palettes, including Headspace's brand system and Readymag's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #282c2f in 5 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 #282c2f in 7 real palettes, including Rain Garden and Blush, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #282c2f in 5 real palettes, including Polaroid and Chalkboard, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedCadet Blue is paired with #282c2f in 9 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Coastal, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedChampagne is paired with #282c2f in 8 real palettes, including Darkroom and Forest Floor, as the surface under it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
White Smoke #f5f5f5
neutralWhite Smoke is the near-white surface #282c2f was made for — maximum legibility with no colour cast to argue with.
Real palettes that use #282c2f
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #282c2f as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 14.08:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.49:1 | 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 #282c2f as the background.
Brands using this color
- Loomtext · #292a2e · Δ0.66
- Rotten Tomatoesprimary · #2a2c32 · Δ0.683
- Astrotext · #2c2c2c · Δ0.837
- Squarespaceprimary · #2a2a2a · Δ0.953
- Headspacetext · #2d2c2b · Δ1.075
- Gilletteprimary · #2b2929 · Δ1.257
- Gillettetext · #2b2929 · Δ1.257
- Fenty Beautyprimary · #2d2929 · Δ1.384
- Fenty Beautytext · #2d2929 · Δ1.384
- Readymagtext · #282828 · Δ1.564
- Superhumantext · #292827 · Δ1.64
- Raycasttext · #2f3031 · Δ1.906
- American Eagleprimary · #24272a · Δ1.949
- American Eagletext · #24272a · Δ1.949
Palettes built around it
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.
Mushroom
Open in tool →Taupe, oat and a sage accent — the quiet earth palette: almost neutral, with just enough colour to feel alive.
Typewriter
Open in tool →Ink-black and ribbon-red on manila — the correspondence palette; all the vintage comes from the paper colour.
Still Water
Open in tool →Dusty teal and mist with a sand accent — low chroma, low contrast between colours, high contrast for text: the recipe for calm.
Fonts for this mood
#282c2f reads as muted, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #282c2f
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 #282c2f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/282c2f-9caec4-df4e56-1f212d-e9f1f1?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