#040d16 as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	19.55:1	pass	pass	pass	Passes AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black	1.07:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #2578cb as the text (4.63:1) AAA: use #579ce0 as the text (7.24:1) AA: or shift the background to #7a7a7a (4.55:1) AAA: or shift the background to #9c9c9c (7.12:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #040d16 as the background.

Brands using this color

Hugging Faceprimary · #0b0f19 · Δ1.777

Palettes built around it

3fb950 58a6ff f778ba 0b0f14 e6edf3

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.

Technical Dark Modern

cbb26a 8b83a8 b8b8c8 0a0a12 efe9dd

Midnight Luxe

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Champagne gold on ink-navy with a violet undertone — hotels and spirits use it because it reads expensive at any size.

Luxury Dark Elegant

Fonts for this mood

#040d16 reads as cool, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

Technical fonts →Modern fonts →Luxury fonts →Bold fonts →

mcpConnect your agent — build around #040d16

live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp

claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp

try this prompt

›analyze #040d16 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/040d16-9cabc4-df514e-1f202d-e9f1f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md