Garnet
Open in tool →Garnet, carnelian and citrine on a wine-black — the warm jewel set for spirits, theatre and jewellery itself.
Color
#1c080a
#1c080a
hex
#1c080argb
rgb(28, 8, 10)hsl
hsl(354, 56%, 7%)oklch
oklch(0.169 0.036 15.1)Closest name: Noir Fiction (#150811)Relative luminance 0.0044
Colors that go with #1c080a
Charcoal, Sea 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 body-text near-black for #1c080a: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Sea Green #2e8b57
triadicshippedSea Green completes a triad with #1c080a — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Sienna #a0522d
analogousshippedSienna is #1c080a's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Steel Blue #4682b4
triadicshippedSteel Blue completes a triad with #1c080a — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Teal #008080
complementaryshippedTeal sits directly opposite #1c080a on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #1c080a in 17 real palettes, including Ember and Ahrefs's brand system, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped22 real palettes, including Robinhood's brand system and native Cybersecurity's brand system put Blue beside #1c080a, as the supporting colour.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #1c080a in 10 real palettes, including Neobank and Twitch's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #1c080a
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #1c080a as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 19.29:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.09:1 | 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 #1c080a as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#1c080a reads as warm, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #1c080a
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 #1c080a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/1c080a-c49d9c-62cb8e-2d241f-f1e9ee?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