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Named color
Nightmare
#112211
hex
#112211rgb
rgb(17, 34, 17)hsl
hsl(120, 33%, 10%)oklch
oklch(0.231 0.039 144.2)Relative luminance 0.013
Nightmare 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 Nightmare
Charcoal, Dark Olive Green and Royal 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 body-text near-black for Nightmare: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
analogousshippedDark Olive Green is Nightmare's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Royal Blue #4169e1
triadicshippedRoyal Blue completes a triad with Nightmare — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Sienna #a0522d
triadicshippedSienna completes a triad with Nightmare — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Slate Blue #6a5acd
split-complementshippedSlate Blue is a split-complement of Nightmare: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Teal #008080
analogousshippedTeal is Nightmare's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Dark Orchid #9932cc
complementaryshippedDark Orchid sits directly opposite Nightmare on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with Nightmare in 18 real palettes, including Trailhead and Google's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use Nightmare
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| Nightmare as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 16.66:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.26:1 | 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 Nightmare 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
Nightmare reads as muted, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around Nightmare
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 #112211 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/112211-a2bea5-994edf-1f2d25-edf1e9?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