Alpine
Open in tool →Glacier blue with a safety-orange accent: technical outdoor gear, not lifestyle.
Color
#236e85
#236e85
hex
#236e85rgb
rgb(35, 110, 133)hsl
hsl(194, 58%, 33%)oklch
oklch(0.503 0.08 222.4)Closest name: Chill of the Night (#256d8d)Relative luminance 0.132
Colors that go with #236e85
Charcoal, Crimson and Denim 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 #236e85: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Crimson #dc143c
split-complementshippedCrimson is a split-complement of #236e85: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Denim #1560bd
analogousshippedDenim is #236e85's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Rust #b7410e
complementaryshippedRust sits directly opposite #236e85 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #236e85 in 4 real palettes, including Lemon Squeezy's brand system and Beach Hut, as the lead colour.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #236e85: 6 real palettes, including Fintech Trust and Glacier, as the lead colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #236e85: 5 real palettes, including Dusk and Desert Road, as the accent.
Firebrick #b22222
shippedDesigners have shipped Firebrick with #236e85: 5 real palettes, including Wendy's's brand system and AT&T's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #236e85
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #236e85 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.77:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 3.64:1 | fail | pass | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #236e85 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
#236e85 reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #236e85
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 #236e85 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/236e85-9cb6c4-df4e72-1f242d-e9f1ef?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