Color
#283117
#283117rgb(40, 49, 23)hsl(81, 36%, 14%)oklch(0.297 0.045 124.7)Colors that go with #283117
Charcoal, Sea Green and Steel 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 body-text near-black for #283117: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Sea Green #2e8b57
analogousshippedSea Green is #283117's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Steel Blue #4682b4
triadicshippedSteel Blue completes a triad with #283117 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Slate Blue #6a5acd
complementaryshippedSlate Blue sits directly opposite #283117 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #283117 in 6 real palettes, including Wikipedia's brand system and Beach Hut, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Blue #0000ff
shippedBlue is paired with #283117 in 12 real palettes, including Headspace's brand system and Instacart's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shippedBlush Pink is paired with #283117 in 6 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 #283117 in 5 real palettes, including Chalkboard and Polaroid, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #283117
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #283117 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 13.62:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.54:1 | 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 #283117 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Fonts for this mood
#283117 reads as dark, luxury, bold. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
Point 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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #283117 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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