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
#1e1028
#1e1028
hex
#1e1028rgb
rgb(30, 16, 40)hsl
hsl(275, 43%, 11%)oklch
oklch(0.205 0.049 309.6)Closest name: Shot in the Dark (#1d0d1d)Relative luminance 0.008
Colors that go with #1e1028
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 #1e1028: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
complementaryshippedDark Olive Green sits directly opposite #1e1028 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Sienna #a0522d
triadicshippedSienna completes a triad with #1e1028 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Slate Blue #6a5acd
analogousshippedSlate Blue is #1e1028's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Teal #008080
split-complementshippedTeal is a split-complement of #1e1028: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #1e1028 in 18 real palettes, including Blueprint and Southwest Airlines's brand system, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped23 real palettes, including Warp's brand system and League of Legends's brand system put Blue beside #1e1028, as the supporting colour.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #1e1028 in 10 real palettes, including Gemstone and Yahoo's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #1e1028
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #1e1028 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 18.1:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.16:1 | 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 #1e1028 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
#1e1028 reads as cool, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #1e1028
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 #1e1028 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/1e1028-b89cc4-c0cb62-2d1f2d-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