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
#080c1b
#080c1b
hex
#080c1brgb
rgb(8, 12, 27)hsl
hsl(227, 54%, 7%)oklch
oklch(0.159 0.033 270.7)Closest name: Midnight Oil (#0b0c14)Relative luminance 0.0039
Colors that go with #080c1b
Charcoal, Dark Olive Green and Sea Green 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 #080c1b: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
complementaryshippedDark Olive Green sits directly opposite #080c1b on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Sea Green #2e8b57
triadicshippedSea Green completes a triad with #080c1b — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Sienna #a0522d
split-complementshippedSienna is a split-complement of #080c1b: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Slate Blue #6a5acd
analogousshippedSlate Blue is #080c1b's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Steel Blue #4682b4
analogousshippedSteel Blue is #080c1b'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 #080c1b in 15 real palettes, including Lemon Squeezy's brand system and Ahrefs's brand system, as the lead colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped19 real palettes, including Kia's brand system and Pfizer's brand system put Blue beside #080c1b, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #080c1b
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #080c1b as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 19.47:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.08:1 | 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 #080c1b as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Arcade
Open in tool →Hot pink, cyan and acid yellow on near-black — cabinet-glow neon; the black surface is what makes the colours light up.
Gemstone
Open in tool →Emerald, amethyst and ruby on velvet-black — the jewel-tone trio; the surface must be dark or the stones go plastic.
Fonts for this mood
#080c1b reads as cool, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #080c1b
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 #080c1b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/080c1b-9ca0c4-df7a4e-221f2d-e9eff1?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