Named color

Cinder

#242a2e

hex#242a2e

rgbrgb(36, 42, 46)

hslhsl(204, 12%, 16%)

oklchoklch(0.281 0.011 237)

Relative luminance 0.0223

Cool Muted Dark Luxury Bold

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Cinder 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

Tints — toward white

363f45 48545b 5c6b75 6e808c 84949f 9ba8b0 b2bcc2 ccd2d7 e2e6e9 f9fafb

Shades — toward black

22272b 1f2528 1b1f22 191d1f 161a1d 14181a 121517 0d1011 0b0d0e 090a0b

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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242a2e 2e2824

#2e2824

Analogous

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242a2e 242e2d 24252e

#242e2d · #24252e

Triadic

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242a2e 2e242a 2a2e24

#2e242a · #2a2e24

Split-complementary

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242a2e 2e2425 2e2d24

#2e2425 · #2e2d24

Tetradic

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242a2e 2d242e 2e2824 252e24

#2d242e · #2e2824 · #252e24

Contrast

Cinder as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	14.53:1	pass	pass	pass	Passes AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black	1.45:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #677883 as the text (4.59:1) AAA: use #8a99a3 as the text (7.17:1) AA: or shift the background to #919191 (4.61:1) AAA: or shift the background to #b5b5b5 (7.08:1)

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

Brands using this color

Fonts for this mood

Cinder reads as cool, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

Luxury fonts →Bold fonts →

mcpConnect your agent — build around Cinder

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 #242a2e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/242a2e-9cafc4-df4e5a-1f222d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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