Tide Pool
Open in tool →Sea-green and slate with a coral — a literal tide pool: two cool tones, one warm creature.
Color
#232f4d
#232f4d
hex
#232f4drgb
rgb(35, 47, 77)hsl
hsl(223, 37%, 22%)oklch
oklch(0.31 0.057 266.6)Closest name: Midnight Ocean (#0f2d4d)Relative luminance 0.0293
Colors that go with #232f4d
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 #232f4d 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 #232f4d — 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 #232f4d: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Slate Blue #6a5acd
analogousshippedSlate Blue is #232f4d'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 #232f4d's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #232f4d in 6 real palettes, including Beach Hut and Wikipedia's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped15 real palettes, including Sketch's brand system and Monzo's brand system put Blue beside #232f4d, as the accent.
White Smoke #f5f5f5
neutralWhite Smoke is the surface for #232f4d: a clean near-white with no warm cast, so the cool hue stays clear instead of drifting muddy.
Real palettes that use #232f4d
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #232f4d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 13.25:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.59:1 | 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 #232f4d 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
#232f4d reads as cool, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #232f4d
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 #232f4d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/232f4d-9ca3c4-df704e-211f2d-e9eff1?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