Meadow
Open in tool →Fresh green, buttercup and a wildflower pink — spring at full saturation; the leaf-dark text does the anchoring.
Color
#282e19
#282e19
hex
#282e19rgb
rgb(40, 46, 25)hsl
hsl(77, 30%, 14%)oklch
oklch(0.289 0.037 121.7)Closest name: Marshland (#2b2e26)Relative luminance 0.0248
Colors that go with #282e19
Charcoal, Dark Olive Green and Sea Green 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 body-text near-black for #282e19: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
analogousshippedDark Olive Green is #282e19's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Sea Green #2e8b57
analogousshippedSea Green is #282e19's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Slate Blue #6a5acd
complementaryshippedSlate Blue sits directly opposite #282e19 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Steel Blue #4682b4
triadicshippedSteel Blue completes a triad with #282e19 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #282e19 in 18 real palettes, including McDonald's's brand system and Wikipedia's brand system, as the lead colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped20 real palettes, including Headspace's brand system and Readymag's brand system put Blue beside #282e19, as the accent.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #282e19 in 5 real palettes, including ClickUp's brand system and Yahoo's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #282e19
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #282e19 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 14.05:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.5:1 | 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 #282e19 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
#282e19 reads as muted, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #282e19
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 #282e19 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/282e19-b3bea2-4e6bdf-232d1f-f1efe9?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