Color
#0872aa
#0872aargb(8, 114, 170)hsl(201, 91%, 35%)oklch(0.528 0.121 241.2)Colors that go with #0872aa
Charcoal, Crimson and Medium Sea Green 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 #0872aa: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #0872aa in 4 real palettes, including Retro Pop and Netflix's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
shippedMedium Sea Green is paired with #0872aa in 4 real palettes, including Fintech Trust and Indigo SaaS, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #0872aa in 5 real palettes, including Fintech Trust and Open House, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Orange Red #ff4500
shippedOrange Red is paired with #0872aa in 4 real palettes, including PlanetScale's brand system and Strava's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #0872aa in 9 real palettes, including Astro's brand system and Dusk, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Sienna #a0522d
complementarySienna sits directly opposite #0872aa on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Rust #b7410e
split-complementshippedRust is a split-complement of #0872aa: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #0872aa
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #0872aa as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.25:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 4:1 | fail | pass | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #0872aa as the background.
Brands using this color
Fonts for this mood
#0872aa reads as cool, vivid, technical. 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 #0872aa and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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