Midnight Luxe
Open in tool →Champagne gold on ink-navy with a violet undertone — hotels and spirits use it because it reads expensive at any size.
Color
#9089ae
#9089ae
hex
#9089aergb
rgb(144, 137, 174)hsl
hsl(251, 19%, 61%)oklch
oklch(0.649 0.055 293.5)Closest name: Cool Gray (#8c92ac)Relative luminance 0.2688
Colors that go with #9089ae
Charcoal, Copper and Denim 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 #9089ae: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Copper #b87333
triadicshippedCopper completes a triad with #9089ae — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #9089ae: 5 real palettes, including Dusk and Open House, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped5 real palettes, including Plaid's brand system and Open House put Midnight Blue beside #9089ae, as the supporting colour.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #9089ae: 4 real palettes, including Ink Wash and First Snow, as the lead colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #9089ae in 17 real palettes, including Dusk and Typewriter, as the text colour against it.
Dark Goldenrod #b8860b
complementaryDark Goldenrod sits directly opposite #9089ae on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
split-complementshippedMedium Sea Green is a split-complement of #9089ae: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #9089ae
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #9089ae as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.29:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.38:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #9089ae 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
mcpConnect your agent — build around #9089ae
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 #9089ae and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/9089ae-a89cc4-dfb34e-281f2d-e9ecf1?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