Sunset Boulevard
Open in tool →Coral, apricot and magenta on aubergine — the gradient sunset every event brand wants, decomposed into flat tokens.
Color
#18121c
#18121c
hex
#18121crgb
rgb(24, 18, 28)hsl
hsl(276, 22%, 9%)oklch
oklch(0.194 0.022 311.5)Closest name: Back in Black (#16141c)Relative luminance 0.0071
Colors that go with #18121c
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 #18121c without the hard edge of pure #000.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #18121c in 18 real palettes, including Lemon Squeezy's brand system and Ahrefs's brand system, as the lead colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped22 real palettes, including Warp's brand system and native Cybersecurity's brand system put Blue beside #18121c, as the supporting colour.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #18121c in 10 real palettes, including Prepare your taste buds...'s brand system and Klarna US's brand system, as the accent.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped5 real palettes, including Estate and Cartier's brand system put Blush Pink beside #18121c, as the accent.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped5 real palettes, including State Farm's brand system and Garnet put Brown beside #18121c, as the supporting colour.
Burgundy #800020
shipped4 real palettes, including Qatar Airways's brand system and Mailchimp's brand system put Burgundy beside #18121c, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #18121c in 6 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Velvet, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #18121c
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #18121c 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 #18121c as the background.
Brands using this color
- Railwaytext · #13111c · Δ1.147
- Warptext · #1a1522 · Δ1.496
- Boseprimary · #131317 · Δ1.603
- Bosetext · #131317 · Δ1.603
- PlayStation® Official Site: Consoles, Games, Accessories & MoreSony Interactive Entertainmentprimary · #181416 · Δ1.629
- Xfinityprimary · #141417 · Δ1.664
- Xfinitytext · #141417 · Δ1.664
- Lemon Squeezytext · #121217 · Δ1.668
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#18121c reads as cool, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #18121c
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 #18121c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/18121c-b99cc4-bfcb62-2d1f2d-eae9f1?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