Color
#2a222f
#2a222frgb(42, 34, 47)hsl(277, 16%, 16%)oklch(0.267 0.026 312.3)Colors that go with #2a222f
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 #2a222f without the hard edge of pure #000.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #2a222f 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 Sketch's brand system and Readymag's brand system put Blue beside #2a222f, as the accent.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #2a222f in 9 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 #2a222f, as the accent.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped5 real palettes, including Typewriter and Woodsmoke put Brown beside #2a222f, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #2a222f in 6 real palettes, including Kiln and Coastal, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #2a222f: 10 real palettes, including Dusk and SoFi's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #2a222f
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #2a222f as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 15.35:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.37:1 | 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 #2a222f 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
#2a222f reads as cool, muted, dark. 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 #2a222f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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