Brand color

Datadog Text

#212529

hex#212529

rgbrgb(33, 37, 41)

hslhsl(210, 11%, 15%)

oklchoklch(0.262 0.009 248.2)

From Datadog brand colorsRelative luminance 0.0181

Cool Muted Dark Luxury Bold

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Datadog Text 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 13 public brands that use it and the palettes it appears in.

Tints & shades

Tints — toward white

343b41 49525b 5b6671 6d7a88 85919d 9ca6b0 b3bac2 c9cfd4 e3e6e8 f9fafa

Shades — toward black

202428 1e2125 1b1f22 191c1f 171a1c 121417 101214 0e0f11 0b0d0e 090a0b

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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212529 2a2622

#2a2622

Analogous

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212529 222a2a 22222a

#222a2a · #22222a

Triadic

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212529 2a2226 262a22

#2a2226 · #262a22

Split-complementary

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212529 2a2222 2a2a22

#2a2222 · #2a2a22

Tetradic

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212529 2a222a 2a2622 222a22

#2a222a · #2a2622 · #222a22

Contrast

Datadog Text as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	15.43:1	pass	pass	pass	Passes AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black	1.36:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #6b7885 as the text (4.65:1) AAA: use #8e99a4 as the text (7.24:1) AA: or shift the background to #8c8c8c (4.59:1) AAA: or shift the background to #b0b0b0 (7.11:1)

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

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

ff5e5b 00cecb ffed66 ffffff 222222

Crayon Box

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Red, teal and yellow at crayon saturation — joyful, but on white with black type so it stays readable for grown-ups.

Playful Vivid FriendlyKids

4b5d8a 8b97b3 c07a4e eef0f4 1f2430

Dusk

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Slate blue with a copper accent — calm, professional, slightly editorial; suits consultancies and journals.

Cool Muted Elegant

1f4d3a 8aa39b d98c3f f7f7f4 1c2321

Paper & Pine

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Deep pine on paper-white with a marmalade accent — a quiet, sustainable-brand palette that isn't beige.

Minimal Cool Clean Muted

Fonts for this mood

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

Luxury fonts →Bold fonts →

mcpConnect your agent — build around Datadog Text

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 #212529 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/212529-9cabc4-df514e-1f202d-e9f1f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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