Frost & Ember
Open in tool →Navy and frost with one ember red — the classic cold-with-a-warm-accent structure, borrowed from a thousand ski posters.
Color
#143252
#143252
hex
#143252rgb
rgb(20, 50, 82)hsl
hsl(211, 61%, 20%)oklch
oklch(0.312 0.068 252.1)Closest name: Beyond the Stars (#0a3251)Relative luminance 0.0304
Colors that go with #143252
Firebrick, Sea Green and Sienna 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.
Firebrick #b22222
triadicshippedFirebrick completes a triad with #143252 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Sea Green #2e8b57
triadicshippedSea Green completes a triad with #143252 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Sienna #a0522d
complementaryshippedSienna sits directly opposite #143252 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Slate Blue #6a5acd
analogousshippedSlate Blue is #143252's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Teal #008080
analogousshippedTeal is #143252's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #143252 in 7 real palettes, including Beach Hut and McDonald's's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped16 real palettes, including Monzo's brand system and Alaska Airlines's brand system put Blue beside #143252, as the accent.
White Smoke #f5f5f5
neutralWhite Smoke is the surface for #143252: a clean near-white with no warm cast, so the cool hue stays clear instead of drifting muddy.
Real palettes that use #143252
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #143252 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 13.06:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.61:1 | 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 #143252 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#143252 reads as cool, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #143252
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #143252 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/143252-9cabc4-df534e-1f202d-e9f1f1?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