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
#b1b2c8
#b1b2c8
hex
#b1b2c8rgb
rgb(177, 178, 200)hsl
hsl(237, 17%, 74%)oklch
oklch(0.77 0.031 283.6)Closest name: Nebulous December (#b3b2bf)Relative luminance 0.4536
Colors that go with #b1b2c8
Charcoal, Sand and 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #b1b2c8: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Sand #c2b280
complementaryshippedSand sits directly opposite #b1b2c8 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including Uber's brand system and Canva's brand system put Blue beside #b1b2c8, as the accent.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #b1b2c8: 5 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Riverbed, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #b1b2c8 in 5 real palettes, including Cartier's brand system and JBL's brand system, as the accent.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #b1b2c8: 6 real palettes, including Max's brand system and Calm's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #b1b2c8: 5 real palettes, including Open House and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #b1b2c8 in 4 real palettes, including Desert Road and Canopy, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #b1b2c8
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #b1b2c8 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.09:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10.07:1 | 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 #b1b2c8 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
#b1b2c8 reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #b1b2c8
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 #b1b2c8 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/b1b2c8-9f9cc4-df924e-251f2d-e9edf1?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