Color

#2e281e

#2e281e
hex#2e281e
rgbrgb(46, 40, 30)
hslhsl(38, 21%, 15%)
oklchoklch(0.28 0.02 80.4)
Closest name: Bitter Liquorice (#262926)Relative luminance 0.0219

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

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#1e242e

#2e201e · #2c2e1e

#1e2e28 · #281e2e

Split-complementary

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#1e2c2e · #201e2e

#1e2e20 · #1e242e · #2e1e2c

Contrast

#2e281e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
14.6:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.44:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #857457 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #a49374 as the text (7:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #8f8f8f (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #b5b5b5 (7.12:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #2e281e as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#2e281e reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #2e281e
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #2e281e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/2e281e-c4ba9c-62bbcb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md