Color
#185caa
#185caargb(24, 92, 170)hsl(212, 75%, 38%)oklch(0.478 0.141 255.2)Colors that go with #185caa
Charcoal, Crimson and Amber 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 #185caa: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Crimson #dc143c
triadicshippedCrimson completes a triad with #185caa — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #185caa in 6 real palettes, including Warner Bros.'s brand system and Wikipedia's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Blue #0000ff
shippedBlue is paired with #185caa in 6 real palettes, including Pixar's brand system and CVS's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedCornflower Blue is paired with #185caa in 4 real palettes, including Coca-Cola's brand system and Blue Mono, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Firebrick #b22222
shippedFirebrick is paired with #185caa in 4 real palettes, including Campbell's's brand system and Nissan's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
shippedMedium Sea Green is paired with #185caa in 4 real palettes, including Fintech Trust and Console Light, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #185caa in 13 real palettes, including Paramount+'s brand system and FIFA's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #185caa
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #185caa as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.67:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.15:1 | fail | pass | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #185caa as the background.
Brands using this color
Fonts for this mood
#185caa 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 #185caa and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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