Color

#240c55

#240c55
hex#240c55
rgbrgb(36, 12, 85)
hslhsl(260, 75%, 19%)
oklchoklch(0.249 0.12 289.6)
Closest name: Blackmail (#220066)Relative luminance 0.0129

Colors that go with #240c55

Charcoal, Royal Blue and Teal 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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#3d550c

#0c1855 · #490c55

#55240c · #0c5524

Split-complementary

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#55490c · #18550c

#550c18 · #3d550c · #0c5549

Contrast

#240c55 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
16.68:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.26:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #895ae7 as the text (4.68:1)
  • AAA: use #a682ed as the text (7.04:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #858585 (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #a8a8a8 (7.02:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #240c55 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

#240c55 reads as cool, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #240c55
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 #240c55 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/240c55-ae9cc4-dfc94e-2a1f2d-e9ebf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md