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Color
#05222e
#05222e
hex
#05222ergb
rgb(5, 34, 46)hsl
hsl(198, 80%, 10%)oklch
oklch(0.237 0.041 229.3)Closest name: Midnight Dreams (#002233)Relative luminance 0.0137
Colors that go with #05222e
Charcoal, Crimson and Royal 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 for #05222e: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Crimson #dc143c
split-complementshippedCrimson is a split-complement of #05222e: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Royal Blue #4169e1
analogousshippedRoyal Blue is #05222e's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Sienna #a0522d
complementaryshippedSienna sits directly opposite #05222e on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Teal #008080
analogousshippedTeal is #05222e's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #05222e in 18 real palettes, including Blueprint and Wikipedia's brand system, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped23 real palettes, including Monzo's brand system and Bumble's brand system put Blue beside #05222e, as the accent.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #05222e in 10 real palettes, including ClickUp's brand system and Yahoo's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #05222e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #05222e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 16.47:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.27:1 | 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 #05222e as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#05222e reads as cool, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #05222e
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 #05222e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/05222e-9cb3c4-df4e69-1f232d-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