Midnight Luxe
Open in tool →Champagne gold on ink-navy with a violet undertone — hotels and spirits use it because it reads expensive at any size.
Color
#040b16
#040b16
hex
#040b16rgb
rgb(4, 11, 22)hsl
hsl(217, 69%, 5%)oklch
oklch(0.148 0.027 255.2)Closest name: Dark Rift (#060b14)Relative luminance 0.0032
Colors that go with #040b16
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 #040b16 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #040b16 in 14 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 Kia's brand system put Blue beside #040b16, as the supporting colour.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #040b16 in 10 real palettes, including Gemstone and Circuit, as the supporting colour.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped4 real palettes, including Velvet and State Farm's brand system put Brown beside #040b16, as the lead colour.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #040b16: 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 #040b16, as the text colour against it.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #040b16: 11 real palettes, including Intel's brand system and Behance's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #040b16
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #040b16 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 19.73:1 | 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 #040b16 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#040b16 reads as cool, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #040b16
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 #040b16 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/040b16-9ca7c4-df624e-201f2d-e9f0f1?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