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
#041016
#041016
hex
#041016rgb
rgb(4, 16, 22)hsl
hsl(200, 69%, 5%)oklch
oklch(0.164 0.023 229.1)Closest name: Midnight Oil (#0b0c14)Relative luminance 0.0045
Colors that go with #041016
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 #041016 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #041016 in 18 real palettes, including Ahrefs's brand system and Mastodon hosted on mastodon.social's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped20 real palettes, including Kia's brand system and native Cybersecurity's brand system put Blue beside #041016, as the accent.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #041016 in 10 real palettes, including Twitch's brand system and Neobank, as the lead colour.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped4 real palettes, including State Farm's brand system and Velvet put Brown beside #041016, as the supporting colour.
Burgundy #800020
shipped4 real palettes, including Mailchimp's brand system and Rare Beauty's brand system put Burgundy beside #041016, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #041016 in 5 real palettes, including Velvet and Coffee Bar, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #041016: 8 real palettes, including Estate and Arctic, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #041016
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #041016 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 19.25:1 | 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 #041016 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#041016 reads as cool, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #041016
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 #041016 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/041016-9cb2c4-df4e64-1f232d-e9f1f0?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