Color
#185ec9
#185ec9rgb(24, 94, 201)hsl(216, 79%, 44%)oklch(0.506 0.18 259.5)Colors that go with #185ec9
Crimson, Medium Sea Green and Midnight 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.
Crimson #dc143c
triadicshippedCrimson completes a triad with #185ec9 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
shippedMedium Sea Green is paired with #185ec9 in 4 real palettes, including Console Light and Telehealth, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #185ec9 in 5 real palettes, including Telehealth and Blue Mono, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Slate Gray #708090
shippedSlate Gray is paired with #185ec9 in 5 real palettes, including Campus and Slate Workspace, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #185ec9 in 5 real palettes, including Loom's brand system and Astro's brand system, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Olive Green #808000
complementaryOlive Green sits directly opposite #185ec9 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shippedBlue is paired with #185ec9 in 3 real palettes, including MongoDB's brand system and Dropbox's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #185ec9: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Real palettes that use #185ec9
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #185ec9 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.03:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.48:1 | 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 #185ec9 as the background.
Brands using this color
Fonts for this mood
#185ec9 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 #185ec9 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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