Gallery
Open in tool →Near-monochrome with one burnt-orange highlight — an art director's default because it never competes with the work.
Named color
Back in Black
#16141c
hex
#16141crgb
rgb(22, 20, 28)hsl
hsl(255, 17%, 9%)oklch
oklch(0.197 0.016 296.4)Relative luminance 0.0075
Back In Black on this page is the real value, not a screenshot: exact hex, RGB, HSL and OKLCH, ten tints and ten shades, classic harmonies, and WCAG contrast with fixes — plus the 11 public brands that use it and the palettes it appears in.
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| Back in Black as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 18.25:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.15:1 | 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 Back in Black as the background.
Brands using this color
- Railwaytext · #13111c · Δ1.333
- Lemon Squeezytext · #121217 · Δ1.438
- Warptext · #1a1522 · Δ1.492
- Retooltext · #151515 · Δ1.621
- Airtabletext · #161616 · Δ1.637
- CircleCItext · #161616 · Δ1.637
- Chasetext · #101820 · Δ1.682
- Runwayprimary · #141414 · Δ1.725
- Next.jstext · #171717 · Δ1.768
- GitHubprimary · #181717 · Δ1.803
- Anthropictext · #141413 · Δ1.923
Palettes built around it
Console Light
Open in tool →A sober docs palette: one blue for interactive, one green for success, zinc greys for everything else.
Graphite
Open in tool →A greyscale system with a single amber — the accent does all the work, so allow one per screen.
Atelier
Open in tool →Black on bone with a whisper of gold: the runway default that lets garments carry the color.
Estate
Open in tool →Bronze on charcoal signals premium listings; the silver accent handles secondary detail without adding color.
Fonts for this mood
Back in Black reads as cool, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around Back in Black
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #16141c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/16141c-ab9cc4-dfbd4e-291f2d-e9ebf1?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