Circuit
Open in tool →Violet plus cyan is the current AI-product signal — pair it with pure black type to keep it from going candy.
Color
#09090c
#09090c
hex
#09090crgb
rgb(9, 9, 12)hsl
hsl(240, 14%, 4%)oklch
oklch(0.141 0.007 285.5)Closest name: Black Wash (#0c0c0c)Relative luminance 0.0028
Colors that go with #09090c
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 #09090c without the hard edge of pure #000.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #09090c in 16 real palettes, including Ahrefs's brand system and Mastodon hosted on mastodon.social's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped18 real palettes, including Pfizer's brand system and Robinhood's brand system put Blue beside #09090c, as the supporting colour.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #09090c in 10 real palettes, including Circuit and Render's brand system, as the lead colour.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped4 real palettes, including Velvet and State Farm's brand system put Brown beside #09090c, as the lead colour.
Burgundy #800020
shipped4 real palettes, including Rare Beauty's brand system and Mailchimp's brand system put Burgundy beside #09090c, as the supporting colour.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #09090c: 6 real palettes, including Estate and Arctic, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped8 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Sweetgreen's brand system put Champagne beside #09090c, as the text colour against it.
Real palettes that use #09090c
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #09090c as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 19.89:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.06:1 | 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 #09090c as the background.
Brands using this color
- Buntext · #0a0a0a · Δ0.743
- Framertext · #0a0a0a · Δ0.743
- MetaMaskprimary · #0a0a0a · Δ0.743
- MetaMasktext · #0a0a0a · Δ0.743
- Pfizerprimary · #0a0a0a · Δ0.743
- Pfizertext · #0a0a0a · Δ0.743
- Coinbasetext · #0a0b0d · Δ0.853
- Webflowtext · #080808 · Δ0.95
- Airbusprimary · #070b11 · Δ1.18
- Airbustext · #070b11 · Δ1.18
- Asanatext · #0d0d0d · Δ1.895
- Rendertext · #0d0d0d · Δ1.895
- Olympicstext · #0d0d10 · Δ1.92
Palettes built around it
Streetwear
Open in tool →Black, white, red, yellow — drop-culture signal colors, unmissable at thumbnail size.
Noir Beauty
Open in tool →Black, gold and one deep red — the prestige cosmetics counter: all restraint and a single lipstick.
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.
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.
Laser
Open in tool →Laser green, violet and cyan — the synthwave/gaming set; keep the type near-white and let one neon own each screen.
Fonts for this mood
#09090c reads as cool, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #09090c
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 #09090c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/09090c-a19cc4-df994e-251f2d-e9edf1?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