Blue Mono
Open in tool →One blue at four lightnesses — monochromatic in the colour-theory sense; the deep step is the text, the pale step the surface tint.
Color
#142557rgb(20, 37, 87)hsl(225, 63%, 21%)oklch(0.283 0.093 266.3)Charcoal, Dark Olive Green and 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 is the text near-black for #142557: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Olive Green sits directly opposite #142557 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Sea Green completes a triad with #142557 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Slate Blue is #142557's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Steel Blue is #142557's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Amber is paired with #142557 in 7 real palettes, including Southwest Airlines's brand system and Beach Hut, as the accent.
17 real palettes, including Monzo's brand system and Sketch's brand system put Blue beside #142557, as the accent.
Burlywood is paired with #142557 in 4 real palettes, including Coastal and Chalkboard, as the accent.
| #142557 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 14.66:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.43:1 | 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 #142557 as the background.
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
One blue at four lightnesses — monochromatic in the colour-theory sense; the deep step is the text, the pale step the surface tint.
#142557 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 #142557 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/142557-9ca1c4-df754e-221f2d-e9eff1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md