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
#aab8ca
#aab8ca
hex
#aab8cargb
rgb(170, 184, 202)hsl
hsl(214, 23%, 73%)oklch
oklch(0.777 0.03 254.7)Closest name: Ethereal Mist (#b0b8cc)Relative luminance 0.4709
Colors that go with #aab8ca
Charcoal, Blue and Copper 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 #aab8ca: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including Uber's brand system and Lexus's brand system put Blue beside #aab8ca, as the accent.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #aab8ca: 5 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Riverbed, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #aab8ca in 6 real palettes, including Cartier's brand system and Frost & Ember, as the accent.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #aab8ca: 7 real palettes, including Max's brand system and Calm's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #aab8ca: 6 real palettes, including Open House and Coca-Cola's brand system, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #aab8ca in 4 real palettes, including Pine & Birch and Desert Road, as the lead colour.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
split-complementshippedDark Salmon is a split-complement of #aab8ca: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #aab8ca
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #aab8ca as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.02:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10.42:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #aab8ca 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
#aab8ca reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #aab8ca
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 #aab8ca and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/aab8ca-9ca9c4-df5a4e-1f1f2d-e9f0f1?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