Dusk Gradient
Open in tool →Orange and peach on indigo-black with a violet — the last five minutes of a sunset, as a dark mode.
Color
#160f2ergb(22, 15, 46)hsl(254, 51%, 12%)oklch(0.198 0.06 290.3)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 is the text near-black for #160f2e: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Olive Green sits directly opposite #160f2e on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Sea Green is a split-complement of #160f2e: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Sienna is a split-complement of #160f2e: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Steel Blue is #160f2e's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Teal completes a triad with #160f2e — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Amber is paired with #160f2e in 14 real palettes, including Blueprint and Lemon Squeezy's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Blue is paired with #160f2e in 23 real palettes, including League of Legends's brand system and Penpot's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
| #160f2e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 18.39:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.14:1 | 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 #160f2e as the background.
#160f2e reads as cool, dark, luxury. 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 #160f2e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/160f2e-aa9cc4-dfbb4e-291f2d-e9ebf1?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