Color

#08538c

#08538c
hex#08538c
rgbrgb(8, 83, 140)
hslhsl(206, 89%, 29%)
oklchoklch(0.433 0.115 248.9)
Closest name: Beyond the Sea (#005784)Relative luminance 0.0813

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8c4108

#088c83 · #08118c

#8c0853 · #538c08

Split-complementary

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#8c0811 · #8c8308

#83088c · #8c4108 · #118c08

Contrast

#08538c as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
8:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.63:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #0c78ca as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #2b9cf3 as the text (7.15:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #c4c4c4 (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #f0f0f0 (7.02:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #08538c 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

#08538c reads as cool, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #08538c
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

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

analyze #08538c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/08538c-9caec4-df4e56-1f212d-e9f1f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md