Color

#228ce2

#228ce2
hex#228ce2
rgbrgb(34, 140, 226)
hslhsl(207, 77%, 51%)
oklchoklch(0.626 0.158 248.8)
Closest name: Blue Jay (#5588dd)Relative luminance 0.2459

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#e27822

#22e2d9 · #222be2

#e2228c · #8ce222

Split-complementary

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#e2222b · #e2d922

#d922e2 · #e27822 · #2be222

Contrast

#228ce2 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.55:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #1a79c7 as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #135b95 as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #212121 (4.54:1)
Aaon black
5.92:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #419ce6 as the text (7.12:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #228ce2 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

#228ce2 reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #228ce2
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #228ce2 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/228ce2-9cadc4-df4e53-1f212d-e9f1f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md