Color
Illicit Darkness
#00022ergb(0, 2, 46)hsl(237, 100%, 9%)oklch(0.143 0.09 264.2)Colors that go with Illicit Darkness
Blue Violet, Charcoal and Crimson 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.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
analogousshippedBlue Violet is Illicit Darkness's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for Illicit Darkness: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Crimson #dc143c
triadicshippedCrimson completes a triad with Illicit Darkness — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Steel Blue #4682b4
analogousshippedSteel Blue is Illicit Darkness's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with Illicit Darkness in 11 real palettes, including Southwest Airlines's brand system and Blueprint, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped16 real palettes, including Penpot's brand system and League of Legends's brand system put Blue beside Illicit Darkness, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Allbirds's brand system and Midnight Luxe put Champagne beside Illicit Darkness, as the accent.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with Illicit Darkness: 16 real palettes, including Intel's brand system and Air France's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use Illicit Darkness
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| Illicit Darkness as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 20.04:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.05:1 | 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 Illicit Darkness as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Fonts for this mood
Illicit Darkness reads as cool, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #00022e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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