Color

#236aa4

#236aa4
hex#236aa4
rgbrgb(35, 106, 164)
hslhsl(207, 65%, 39%)
oklchoklch(0.51 0.115 247.5)
Closest name: Brilliant Blue (#0075b3)Relative luminance 0.1335

Colors that go with #236aa4

Charcoal, Crimson and Royal 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a45d23

#23a49e · #2329a4

#a4236a · #6aa423

Split-complementary

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#a42329 · #a49e23

#9e23a4 · #a45d23 · #29a423

Contrast

#236aa4 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
5.72:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #1e5c8f as the text (7.04:1)
Aaon black
3.67:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #287abd as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #4e9bda as the text (7.02:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #e6e6e6 (4.59:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #236aa4 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

#236aa4 reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #236aa4
live endpoint

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.

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

analyze #236aa4 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/236aa4-9cadc4-df4e53-1f212d-e9f1f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md