First Snow
Open in tool →Ice blue on snow-white with a deep navy — the quietest winter palette; everything is a tint of one cold hue.
Color
#224c87
#224c87
hex
#224c87rgb
rgb(34, 76, 135)hsl
hsl(215, 60%, 33%)oklch
oklch(0.419 0.109 257.4)Closest name: Assassin (#2d4f83)Relative luminance 0.0726
Colors that go with #224c87
Sea Green, Steel Blue and 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.
Sea Green #2e8b57
triadicshippedSea Green completes a triad with #224c87 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Steel Blue #4682b4
analogousshippedSteel Blue is #224c87's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Blue #0000ff
shipped7 real palettes, including CVS's brand system and Tesco's brand system put Blue beside #224c87, as the supporting colour.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedDesigners have shipped Cornflower Blue with #224c87: 4 real palettes, including Blue Mono and Gopro's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #224c87 in 14 real palettes, including Walgreens's brand system and Costco's brand system, as the lead colour.
Firebrick #b22222
shippedDesigners have shipped Firebrick with #224c87: 6 real palettes, including Campbell's's brand system and MLB's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #224c87 in 4 real palettes, including Sapphire & Gold and Open House, as the supporting colour.
White Smoke #f5f5f5
neutralWhite Smoke is the surface for #224c87: a clean near-white with no warm cast, so the cool hue stays clear instead of drifting muddy.
Real palettes that use #224c87
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #224c87 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 8.57:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.45:1 | 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 #224c87 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
#224c87 reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #224c87
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 #224c87 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/224c87-9ca8c4-df5d4e-201f2d-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