Color

#043c8b

#043c8b
hex#043c8b
rgbrgb(4, 60, 139)
hslhsl(215, 94%, 28%)
oklchoklch(0.377 0.142 259.2)
Closest name: Deep Space Royal (#223382)Relative luminance 0.0512

Colors that go with #043c8b

Charcoal, Crimson and Steel 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.

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#8b5304

#047f8b · #0f048b

#8b043c · #3c8b04

Split-complementary

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#8b0f04 · #7f8b04

#8b047f · #8b5304 · #048b0f

Contrast

#043c8b as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
10.37:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.02:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #0d6ef8 as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #5298fa as the text (7.23:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #ababab (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #d6d6d6 (7.14:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #043c8b 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

#043c8b reads as cool, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #043c8b
live endpoint

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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #043c8b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/043c8b-9ca8c4-df5d4e-201f2d-e9f0f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md