Laser
Open in tool →Laser green, violet and cyan — the synthwave/gaming set; keep the type near-white and let one neon own each screen.
Color
Eight Ball
#03050a
hex
#03050argb
rgb(3, 5, 10)hsl
hsl(223, 54%, 3%)oklch
oklch(0.115 0.015 261.3)Relative luminance 0.0015
Colors that go with Eight Ball
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 Eight Ball without the hard edge of pure #000.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with Eight Ball in 14 real palettes, including Ahrefs's brand system and Mastodon hosted on mastodon.social's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped34 real palettes, including Glossier's brand system and Uber's brand system put Blue beside Eight Ball, as the accent.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with Eight Ball in 10 real palettes, including Circuit and Render's brand system, as the lead colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Sweetgreen's brand system put Champagne beside Eight Ball, as the text colour against it.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with Eight Ball: 17 real palettes, including Oreo's brand system and Behance's brand system, as the lead colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with Eight Ball: 4 real palettes, including Chipotle's brand system and Atelier, as the accent.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedDesigners have shipped Cornflower Blue with Eight Ball: 16 real palettes, including Webflow's brand system and Terminal, as the accent.
Real palettes that use Eight Ball
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| Eight Ball as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 20.39:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.03:1 | 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 Eight Ball as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
Eight Ball reads as cool, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around Eight Ball
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 #03050a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/03050a-9ca3c4-df704e-211f2d-e9eff1?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