Color
#1000bd
#1000bdrgb(16, 0, 189)hsl(245, 100%, 37%)oklch(0.365 0.247 266.2)Colors that go with #1000bd
Midnight Blue, Orange Red 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.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #1000bd in 4 real palettes, including Monzo's brand system and Sketch's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Orange Red #ff4500
shippedOrange Red is paired with #1000bd in 4 real palettes, including Intercom's brand system and Monzo's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #1000bd in 5 real palettes, including Dropbox's brand system and Headspace's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Olive Green #808000
complementaryOlive Green sits directly opposite #1000bd on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Steel Blue #4682b4
analogousshippedSteel Blue is #1000bd's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Forest Green #228b22
triadicshippedForest Green completes a triad with #1000bd — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Crimson #dc143c
triadicshippedCrimson completes a triad with #1000bd — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
White Smoke #f5f5f5
neutralWhite Smoke is the surface for #1000bd: a clean near-white with no warm cast, so the cool hue stays clear instead of drifting muddy.
Real palettes that use #1000bd
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #1000bd as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 11.95:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.76:1 | 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 #1000bd 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
#1000bd 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 #1000bd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/1000bd-a49cc4-dfa54e-261f2d-e9ecf1?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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