Color
#231bb6
#231bb6rgb(35, 27, 182)hsl(243, 74%, 41%)oklch(0.38 0.224 270.6)Colors that go with #231bb6
Charcoal, Blue and Cornflower 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #231bb6: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Blue #0000ff
shippedBlue is paired with #231bb6 in 4 real palettes, including Pfizer's brand system and Procter & Gamble's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedCornflower Blue is paired with #231bb6 in 4 real palettes, including Blue Mono and Peacock's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #231bb6 in 4 real palettes, including Google's brand system and Intel's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #231bb6 in 6 real palettes, including Blue Mono and Fintech Trust, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Orange Red #ff4500
shippedOrange Red is paired with #231bb6 in 5 real palettes, including Tide's brand system and Intercom's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #231bb6 in 9 real palettes, including Nivea's brand system and NHL's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Steel Blue #4682b4
analogousshippedSteel Blue is #231bb6's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Real palettes that use #231bb6
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #231bb6 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 11.03:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.9:1 | 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 #231bb6 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
#231bb6 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 #231bb6 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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