brandsweets

Named color

King Kong

#161410
hex#161410
rgbrgb(22, 20, 16)
hslhsl(40, 16%, 7%)
oklchoklch(0.192 0.008 84.6)
Relative luminance 0.0071
WarmMutedDarkEditorialElegantLuxuryBold
Open in palette toolCheck contrastWhat goes with it ↓

King Kong 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 116 public brands that use it and the palettes it appears in.

Colors that go with King Kong

Charcoal, Amber and Blue 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.

Real palettes that use King Kong

Anthropic· brandAbstract· brandLEGO· brandRunway· brand

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →
1614100f1115

#0f1115

Analogous

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16141015100f14150f

#15100f · #14150f

Triadic

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1614100f1513130f15

#0f1513 · #130f15

Split-complementary

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1614100f1415100f15

#0f1415 · #100f15

Tetradic

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1614100f15100f1115150f14

#0f1510 · #0f1115 · #150f14

Contrast

King Kong as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
18.39:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.14:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7f735c as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #a1957d as the text (7.11:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #808080 (4.66:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #a1a1a1 (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 King Kong as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

King Kong reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

Warm fonts →Editorial fonts →Elegant fonts →Luxury fonts →Bold fonts →
mcpConnect your agent — build around King Kong
live endpoint

Point 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.

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

›analyze #161410 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/161410-c4bb9c-62b8cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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