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A very dark reddish gray, white text passes AA

Tailwind stone-800

The hex code of Tailwind stone-800 is #292524 (rgb(41 37 36)), from its Tailwind CSS 4.3.3 value oklch(26.8% 0.007 34.298). White text on it reaches 15.17:1, passing WCAG AAA; below, Recolor (recolor.page) puts it on a page.

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#292524stone-800
From the theme file of Tailwind CSS 4.3.3 (--color-stone-800), converted with Recolor's color code, October 9, 2026
FormatValue
OKLCH, as Tailwind writes itoklch(26.8% 0.007 34.298)
Hex#292524
RGBrgb(41 37 36)
HSLhsl(12 6% 15%)
CSS variablevar(--color-stone-800)
Nearest CSS namedarkslategray #2f4f4f, 0.141 away in OKLab
White text15.17:1: AA passes, AAA passes, large text passes
Black text1.38:1: AA fails, AAA fails, large text fails

About stone-800

Read as numbers, stone-800 is lightness 26.8%, chroma 0.007 and hue 34.3 degrees; read by eye, it is a very dark reddish gray. Its neighbors on the stone scale are stone-700, 10.6 points lighter, and stone-900, 5.2 points darker.

Its lightness is 15% in HSL and 26.8% in OKLCH, 12 points apart; only the second tracks how light it looks. No gamut mapping is needed here: oklch(26.8% 0.007 34.298) sits inside sRGB and #292524 matches it.

White on stone-800 reads at 15.17:1, enough for AAA body text; black reaches 1.38:1 and should stay off it. On the stone scale white text works from stone-500 to stone-950; stone-800 has 3 shades of margin.

CSS has no keyword in its neighborhood; darkslategray (#2f4f4f) is the nearest, a long 0.141 away in OKLab.

Tints and shades

  1. #d7d6d7
  2. #b1afb0
  3. #8c8a8a
  4. #696666
  5. #484445
  6. #292524
  7. #1e1a1b
  8. #131111
  9. #090808
  10. #030202

From light to dark: 5 toward white and 4 toward black, mixed in OKLCH a sixth of the way at a time with the hue kept. A step that would repeat its neighbor is left out.

A palette around it

  1. #292524
  2. #5089ba
  3. #d0e1f6
  4. #304f6d
  5. #86bff1

Around stone-800 as swatch 1, Recolor's generator made a monochromatic palette, one hue in five lightnesses: #5089ba, #d0e1f6, #304f6d, #86bff1, drawn from a seed fixed by its hex. Open it in Recolor.

Using stone-800

Pair it with text-white, 15.17:1; stone-800 as text on a white page measures the same ratio. In CSS it is var(--color-stone-800).

HTML
<a class="bg-stone-800 text-white" href="/start">Get started</a>
<p class="text-stone-800">Text in stone-800</p>

Common questions

Does white text pass WCAG AA on Tailwind stone-800?

Yes. White text measures 15.17:1 on stone-800, above the 4.5:1 that WCAG AA asks of body text, and above AAA's 7:1 too.

Is Tailwind stone-800 defined in OKLCH?

Yes. Tailwind CSS 4.3.3 defines it as --color-stone-800: oklch(26.8% 0.007 34.298); #292524 is its conversion to sRGB.

Is there a CSS named color for Tailwind stone-800?

No. The nearest CSS named color is darkslategray (#2f4f4f), 0.141 away in OKLab.

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