Color

#05231e

#05231e
hex#05231e
rgbrgb(5, 35, 30)
hslhsl(170, 75%, 8%)
oklchoklch(0.232 0.037 179.9)
Closest name: Nightmare (#112211)Relative luminance 0.0133

Colors that go with #05231e

Blue Violet, Charcoal and Rust 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.

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

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#24050a

#05240f · #051924

#1f0524 · #241f05

Split-complementary

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#24051a · #240f05

#0f0524 · #24050a · #1a2405

Contrast

#05231e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
16.59:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.27:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #138673 as the text (4.69:1)
  • AAA: use #18aa91 as the text (7.2:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #878787 (4.62:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #ababab (7.23:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #05231e 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

#05231e reads as vivid, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #05231e
live endpoint

Point 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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #05231e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/05231e-a2bebd-d459a9-1f292d-e9f1ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md