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
#2d2834
#2d2834
hex
#2d2834rgb
rgb(45, 40, 52)hsl
hsl(265, 13%, 18%)oklch
oklch(0.287 0.023 304)Closest name: Haiti (#2c2a35)Relative luminance 0.0232
Colors that go with #2d2834
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 #2d2834 in 18 real palettes, including McDonald's's brand system and Beach Hut, as the lead colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped23 real palettes, including Headspace's brand system and Readymag's brand system put Blue beside #2d2834, as the accent.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #2d2834 in 5 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 #2d2834, as the supporting colour.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped4 real palettes, including Typewriter and Woodsmoke put Brown beside #2d2834, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #2d2834 in 5 real palettes, including Coastal and Polaroid, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #2d2834: 10 real palettes, including Dusk and Clean Beauty, as the supporting colour.
White Smoke #f5f5f5
neutralWhite Smoke is the near-white surface #2d2834 was made for — maximum legibility with no colour cast to argue with.
Real palettes that use #2d2834
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #2d2834 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 14.34:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.46:1 | 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 #2d2834 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#2d2834 reads as cool, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #2d2834
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 #2d2834 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/2d2834-b19cc4-dfd54e-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