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
#223253
#223253
hex
#223253rgb
rgb(34, 50, 83)hsl
hsl(220, 42%, 23%)oklch
oklch(0.32 0.063 263.6)Closest name: Beyond the Stars (#0a3251)Relative luminance 0.0325
Colors that go with #223253
Dark Olive Green, 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.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
complementaryshippedDark Olive Green sits directly opposite #223253 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Sea Green #2e8b57
triadicshippedSea Green completes a triad with #223253 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Sienna #a0522d
split-complementshippedSienna is a split-complement of #223253: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Slate Blue #6a5acd
analogousshippedSlate Blue is #223253's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Steel Blue #4682b4
analogousshippedSteel Blue is #223253's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Blue #0000ff
shipped11 real palettes, including Alaska Airlines's brand system and Sketch's brand system put Blue beside #223253, as the accent.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped5 real palettes, including Rain Garden and Blush put Blush Pink beside #223253, as the accent.
White Smoke #f5f5f5
neutralWhite Smoke is the surface for #223253: a clean near-white with no warm cast, so the cool hue stays clear instead of drifting muddy.
Real palettes that use #223253
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #223253 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 12.73:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.65:1 | 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 #223253 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#223253 reads as cool, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #223253
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 #223253 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/223253-9ca5c4-df694e-211f2d-e9f0f1?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