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Color
#020c0d
#020c0d
hex
#020c0drgb
rgb(2, 12, 13)hsl
hsl(185, 73%, 3%)oklch
oklch(0.143 0.019 201.8)Closest name: Black Knight (#010b13)Relative luminance 0.003
Colors that go with #020c0d
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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black that reads cleanly against #020c0d without the hard edge of pure #000.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #020c0d in 16 real palettes, including Ahrefs's brand system and Mastodon hosted on mastodon.social's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped18 real palettes, including Pfizer's brand system and Robinhood's brand system put Blue beside #020c0d, as the supporting colour.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #020c0d in 10 real palettes, including Circuit and Render's brand system, as the lead colour.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped4 real palettes, including Velvet and State Farm's brand system put Brown beside #020c0d, as the lead colour.
Burgundy #800020
shipped4 real palettes, including Rare Beauty's brand system and Mailchimp's brand system put Burgundy beside #020c0d, as the supporting colour.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #020c0d: 6 real palettes, including Estate and Arctic, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped8 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Sweetgreen's brand system put Champagne beside #020c0d, as the text colour against it.
Real palettes that use #020c0d
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #020c0d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 19.79:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.06:1 | 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 #020c0d as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#020c0d reads as cool, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #020c0d
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 #020c0d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/020c0d-a2b8be-df4e88-1f262d-e9f1ee?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md