Terminal
Open in tool →Green for success, blue for links, pink for emphasis — the dark-mode developer family, tuned to sit on near-black without glare.
Color
#021012
#021012
hex
#021012rgb
rgb(2, 16, 18)hsl
hsl(188, 80%, 4%)oklch
oklch(0.16 0.023 205.7)Closest name: Black Knight (#010b13)Relative luminance 0.0043
Colors that go with #021012
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 #021012 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #021012 in 16 real palettes, including Ahrefs's brand system and Mastodon hosted on mastodon.social's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped19 real palettes, including Pfizer's brand system and native Cybersecurity's brand system put Blue beside #021012, as the supporting colour.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #021012 in 10 real palettes, including Render's brand system and Twitch's brand system, as the lead colour.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped4 real palettes, including State Farm's brand system and Velvet put Brown beside #021012, as the supporting colour.
Burgundy #800020
shipped4 real palettes, including Mailchimp's brand system and Rare Beauty's brand system put Burgundy beside #021012, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #021012 in 4 real palettes, including Velvet and Coffee Bar, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #021012: 7 real palettes, including Estate and Arctic, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #021012
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #021012 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 19.35:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.09:1 | 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 #021012 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#021012 reads as cool, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #021012
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 #021012 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/021012-a2b7be-df4e81-1f252d-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