Color

#1428bd

#1428bd
hex#1428bd
rgbrgb(20, 40, 189)
hslhsl(233, 81%, 41%)
oklchoklch(0.397 0.225 266.4)
Closest name: Blue Hour (#0034ab)Relative luminance 0.0534

Colors that go with #1428bd

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

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#bda914

#147cbd · #5514bd

#bd1428 · #28bd14

Split-complementary

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#bd5514 · #7cbd14

#bd147c · #bda914 · #14bd55

Contrast

#1428bd as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
10.15:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.07:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #5466ed as the text (4.5:1)
  • AAA: use #828ff2 as the text (7.16:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #adadad (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #d9d9d9 (7.19:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #1428bd 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

#1428bd reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #1428bd
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 #1428bd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/1428bd-9c9cc4-df884e-241f2d-e9eef1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md