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.
Color
#2b282f
#2b282f
hex
#2b282frgb
rgb(43, 40, 47)hsl
hsl(266, 8%, 17%)oklch
oklch(0.283 0.013 304.9)Closest name: Anthracite (#28282d)Relative luminance 0.0224
Colors that go with #2b282f
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 #2b282f without the hard edge of pure #000.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #2b282f in 15 real palettes, including Beach Hut and Wikipedia's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped22 real palettes, including Readymag's brand system and Headspace's brand system put Blue beside #2b282f, as the supporting colour.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #2b282f 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 Blush and Graphite Mono put Blush Pink beside #2b282f, as the supporting colour.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped4 real palettes, including Typewriter and Woodsmoke put Brown beside #2b282f, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #2b282f in 5 real palettes, including Chalkboard and Kiln, as the lead colour.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #2b282f: 9 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #2b282f
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #2b282f as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 14.51:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.45:1 | 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 #2b282f as the background.
Brands using this color
- Loomtext · #292a2e · Δ0.83
- Gilletteprimary · #2b2929 · Δ1.274
- Gillettetext · #2b2929 · Δ1.274
- Rotten Tomatoesprimary · #2a2c32 · Δ1.298
- Fenty Beautyprimary · #2d2929 · Δ1.306
- Fenty Beautytext · #2d2929 · Δ1.306
- Squarespaceprimary · #2a2a2a · Δ1.348
- Readymagtext · #282828 · Δ1.463
- Superhumantext · #292827 · Δ1.567
- Operaaccent · #252836 · Δ1.628
- American Eagleprimary · #24272a · Δ1.638
- American Eagletext · #24272a · Δ1.638
- Astrotext · #2c2c2c · Δ1.679
- Headspacetext · #2d2c2b · Δ1.829
- Zedtext · #242529 · Δ1.945
- Cloudflaretext · #262626 · Δ1.953
- Obsidiantext · #262626 · Δ1.953
- Sveltetext · #262626 · Δ1.953
Palettes built around it
Typewriter
Open in tool →Ink-black and ribbon-red on manila — the correspondence palette; all the vintage comes from the paper colour.
Fonts for this mood
#2b282f reads as muted, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #2b282f
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 #2b282f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/2b282f-b29cc4-dfd74e-2b1f2d-e9eaf1?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