Alpine
Open in tool →Glacier blue with a safety-orange accent: technical outdoor gear, not lifestyle.
Color
#11212d
#11212d
hex
#11212drgb
rgb(17, 33, 45)hsl
hsl(206, 45%, 12%)oklch
oklch(0.24 0.032 242.2)Closest name: Sunken Ship (#10252a)Relative luminance 0.014
Colors that go with #11212d
Charcoal, Dark Olive Green 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 #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #11212d: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
triadicshippedDark Olive Green completes a triad with #11212d — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Sienna #a0522d
complementaryshippedSienna sits directly opposite #11212d on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Slate Blue #6a5acd
analogousshippedSlate Blue is #11212d's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Teal #008080
analogousshippedTeal is #11212d'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 #11212d in 18 real palettes, including Wikipedia's brand system and Google's brand system, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped23 real palettes, including Monzo's brand system and Bumble's brand system put Blue beside #11212d, as the accent.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #11212d in 10 real palettes, including ClickUp's brand system and Yahoo's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #11212d
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #11212d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 16.42:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.28:1 | 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 #11212d as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#11212d reads as cool, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #11212d
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 #11212d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/11212d-9caec4-df4e56-1f212d-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