Desert Road
Open in tool →Sandstone and sand with a deep teal — the one cool note makes the warm colours look intentional rather than beige.
Named color
Arctic Nights
#345c61
hex
#345c61rgb
rgb(52, 92, 97)hsl
hsl(187, 30%, 29%)oklch
oklch(0.447 0.046 205.9)Relative luminance 0.0925
Arctic Nights on this page is the real value, not a screenshot: exact hex, RGB, HSL and OKLCH, ten tints and ten shades, classic harmonies, and WCAG contrast with fixes — plus the curated palettes it appears in and any public brand that adopts it.
Colors that go with Arctic Nights
Rust, Blue and Cadet 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.
Rust #b7410e
complementaryshippedRust sits directly opposite Arctic Nights on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped6 real palettes, including Rolex's brand system and Warp's brand system put Blue beside Arctic Nights, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with Arctic Nights: 4 real palettes, including Open House and Alpine, as the supporting colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with Arctic Nights: 4 real palettes, including Desert Road and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with Arctic Nights in 5 real palettes, including Codecademy's brand system and Gemstone, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with Arctic Nights: 8 real palettes, including HP's brand system and Hinge's brand system, as the accent.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to Arctic Nights in 5 real palettes, including Fireside and Mid-Century, as the accent.
White Smoke #f5f5f5
neutralWhite Smoke is the surface for Arctic Nights: a clean near-white with no warm cast, so the cool hue stays clear instead of drifting muddy.
Real palettes that use Arctic Nights
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| Arctic Nights as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 7.37:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.85:1 | 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 Arctic Nights 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
Arctic Nights reads as cool, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around Arctic Nights
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 #345c61 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/345c61-a2b8be-df4e83-1f262d-e9f1ee?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