Color
#040240
#040240rgb(4, 2, 64)hsl(242, 94%, 13%)oklch(0.176 0.111 268.8)Colors that go with #040240
Blue Violet, Charcoal and Crimson 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.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
analogousshippedBlue Violet is #040240's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #040240: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Crimson #dc143c
triadicshippedCrimson completes a triad with #040240 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Steel Blue #4682b4
analogousshippedSteel Blue is #040240's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedCobalt Blue is paired with #040240 in 7 real palettes, including Glacier and Fintech Trust, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedCornflower Blue is paired with #040240 in 5 real palettes, including Blueprint and Arctic, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDeep Sky Blue is paired with #040240 in 7 real palettes, including Twilio's brand system and Deep Water, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDodger Blue is paired with #040240 in 4 real palettes, including PostHog's brand system and Replit's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #040240
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #040240 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 19.3:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.09:1 | 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 #040240 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Fonts for this mood
#040240 reads as cool, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
Point 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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #040240 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/040240-a29cc4-df9e4e-261f2d-e9edf1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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