Clean Beauty
Open in tool →Sage and clay on unbleached white — the nothing-to-hide palette for ingredient-led skincare.
Named color
Nightmare Fuel
#293135
hex
#293135rgb
rgb(41, 49, 53)hsl
hsl(200, 13%, 18%)oklch
oklch(0.307 0.013 229.4)Relative luminance 0.0293
Nightmare Fuel 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 12 public brands that use it and the palettes it appears in.
Colors that go with Nightmare Fuel
Amber, Blue and Blush Pink 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.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with Nightmare Fuel in 10 real palettes, including McDonald's's brand system and Beach Hut, as the lead colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped17 real palettes, including Minecraft's brand system and Headspace's brand system put Blue beside Nightmare Fuel, as the accent.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped6 real palettes, including Rain Garden and Blush put Blush Pink beside Nightmare Fuel, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with Nightmare Fuel in 5 real palettes, including Polaroid and Coastal, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with Nightmare Fuel: 10 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Coastal, as the lead colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped8 real palettes, including Darkroom and Forest Floor put Champagne beside Nightmare Fuel, as the surface under it.
Chocolate #d2691e
shippedChocolate shows up next to Nightmare Fuel in 4 real palettes, including Homestead and Wellness, as the accent.
White Smoke #f5f5f5
neutralWhite Smoke is the near-white surface Nightmare Fuel was made for — maximum legibility with no colour cast to argue with.
Real palettes that use Nightmare Fuel
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| Nightmare Fuel as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 13.25:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.59:1 | 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 Nightmare Fuel as the background.
Brands using this color
- Raycasttext · #2f3031 · Δ1.112
- Vimeosecondary · #23313b · Δ1.353
- Minecraftprimary · #313131 · Δ1.446
- Minecrafttext · #313131 · Δ1.446
- Rotten Tomatoesprimary · #2a2c32 · Δ1.627
- Bloombergsecondary · #2b333f · Δ1.825
- Hermèsaccent · #2b333f · Δ1.825
- PlayStation® Official Site: Consoles, Games, Accessories & MoreSony Interactive Entertainmentsecondary · #2b333f · Δ1.825
- Dockerprimary · #2c333f · Δ1.882
- Astrotext · #2c2c2c · Δ1.927
- Asanaprimary · #273240 · Δ1.933
- Audiprimary · #2c343f · Δ1.94
Palettes built around it
Rain Garden
Open in tool →Wet-leaf teal and moss with a soft peach — an overcast spring, calmer than the bright version and better for long reading.
Still Water
Open in tool →Dusty teal and mist with a sand accent — low chroma, low contrast between colours, high contrast for text: the recipe for calm.
Dusty Blue
Open in tool →Dusty blue and mist with a nude accent — the quiet wedding palette; nothing here competes with a photograph.
Fonts for this mood
Nightmare Fuel reads as cool, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around Nightmare Fuel
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #293135 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/293135-9cb2c4-df4e64-1f232d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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