Campus
Open in tool →Institutional blue with a highlighter-amber accent — trustworthy for parents, lively enough for students.
Color
#152a3c
#152a3c
hex
#152a3crgb
rgb(21, 42, 60)hsl
hsl(208, 48%, 16%)oklch
oklch(0.277 0.043 246)Closest name: Eternal Darkness (#1c2841)Relative luminance 0.0214
Colors that go with #152a3c
Charcoal, Dark Olive 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #152a3c: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
triadicshippedDark Olive Green completes a triad with #152a3c — 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 #152a3c 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 #152a3c'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 #152a3c'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 #152a3c in 18 real palettes, including Beach Hut and McDonald's's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped23 real palettes, including Monzo's brand system and Readymag's brand system put Blue beside #152a3c, as the accent.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #152a3c in 7 real palettes, including ClickUp's brand system and Yahoo's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #152a3c
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #152a3c as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 14.7:1 | 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 #152a3c as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Open House
Open in tool →Steel blue for trust, warm gold for the sold moment — an approachable brokerage that still feels established.
Coastal
Open in tool →Sea-teal, sky and sand — bright without shouting; works for travel, wellness, and anything near water.
Beach Hut
Open in tool →Sea blue with sun-bleached yellow and a coral — striped-canvas summer, softened so it works on a screen.
Fonts for this mood
#152a3c reads as cool, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #152a3c
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 #152a3c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/152a3c-9cadc4-df4e51-1f212d-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