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
#09121a
#09121a
hex
#09121argb
rgb(9, 18, 26)hsl
hsl(208, 49%, 7%)oklch
oklch(0.178 0.021 246.1)Closest name: Midnight Edition (#0c121b)Relative luminance 0.0057
Colors that go with #09121a
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 #09121a without the hard edge of pure #000.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #09121a in 15 real palettes, including Lemon Squeezy's brand system and Ahrefs's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Blue #0000ff
shippedBlue is paired with #09121a in 21 real palettes, including Kia's brand system and MongoDB's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #09121a in 10 real palettes, including Prepare your taste buds...'s brand system and Klarna US's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Brown #a52a2a
shippedBrown is paired with #09121a in 5 real palettes, including State Farm's brand system and Velvet, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #09121a in 5 real palettes, including Velvet and Coffee Bar, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedCadet Blue is paired with #09121a in 8 real palettes, including Estate and Arctic, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedChampagne is paired with #09121a in 9 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Sweetgreen's brand system, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #09121a
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #09121a as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 18.87:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.11:1 | 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 #09121a as the background.
Brands using this color
- Hugging Faceprimary · #0b0f19 · Δ1.133
- Kiaprimary · #05141f · Δ1.184
- Kiatext · #05141f · Δ1.184
- Lemon Squeezytext · #121217 · Δ1.661
- MongoDBtext · #061621 · Δ1.796
- Foot Lockerprimary · #0e1111 · Δ1.9
- Foot Lockertext · #0e1111 · Δ1.9
- Railwaytext · #13111c · Δ1.906
- Boseprimary · #131317 · Δ1.951
- Bosetext · #131317 · Δ1.951
- Amazonprimary · #0f1111 · Δ1.965
- Amazontext · #0f1111 · Δ1.965
Palettes built around it
Ledger Dark
Open in tool →Gold on midnight is the private-banking cue; the mint accent keeps it from feeling old-money stuffy.
Estate
Open in tool →Bronze on charcoal signals premium listings; the silver accent handles secondary detail without adding color.
Fonts for this mood
#09121a reads as cool, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #09121a
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 #09121a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/09121a-9cadc4-df4e51-1f212d-e9f1f1?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