Color

#1b38da

#1b38da
hex#1b38da
rgbrgb(27, 56, 218)
hslhsl(231, 78%, 48%)
oklchoklch(0.454 0.243 266.3)
Closest name: Lapis on Neptune (#1f22d2)Relative luminance 0.0812

Colors that go with #1b38da

Charcoal, Sea Green 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.

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#dabd1b

#1b97da · #5e1bda

#da1b38 · #38da1b

Split-complementary

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#da5e1b · #97da1b

#da1b97 · #dabd1b · #1bda5e

Contrast

#1b38da as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
8:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.62:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #5369ea as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #8091ef as the text (7.21:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #c4c4c4 (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #f0f0f0 (7.02:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #1b38da 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

#1b38da reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #1b38da
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 #1b38da and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/1b38da-9c9ec4-df834e-231f2d-e9eef1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md