Alpine
Open in tool →Glacier blue with a safety-orange accent: technical outdoor gear, not lifestyle.
Color
#09222argb(9, 34, 42)hsl(195, 65%, 10%)oklch(0.237 0.034 222.2)Charcoal, Crimson and Sienna 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 is the text near-black for #09222a: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Crimson is a split-complement of #09222a: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Sienna sits directly opposite #09222a on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Steel Blue is #09222a's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Teal is #09222a's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Amber is paired with #09222a in 18 real palettes, including Wikipedia's brand system and Google's brand system, as the accent.
23 real palettes, including Bumble's brand system and Rolex's brand system put Blue beside #09222a, as the supporting colour.
Blue Violet is paired with #09222a in 10 real palettes, including ClickUp's brand system and Yahoo's brand system, as the lead colour.
| #09222a as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 16.49:1 | 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 #09222a as the background.
#09222a reads as cool, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #09222a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/09222a-9cb5c4-df4e70-1f242d-e9f1ef?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