Blue Mono
Open in tool →One blue at four lightnesses — monochromatic in the colour-theory sense; the deep step is the text, the pale step the surface tint.
Color
#242556
#242556
hex
#242556rgb
rgb(36, 37, 86)hsl
hsl(239, 41%, 24%)oklch
oklch(0.293 0.087 278.7)Closest name: Deep Sea Base (#2c2c57)Relative luminance 0.0237
Colors that go with #242556
Charcoal, Dark Olive Green and Slate 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 #242556: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
complementaryshippedDark Olive Green sits directly opposite #242556 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Slate Blue #6a5acd
analogousshippedSlate Blue is #242556'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 #242556's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Teal #008080
triadicshippedTeal completes a triad with #242556 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #242556 in 7 real palettes, including Southwest Airlines's brand system and Beach Hut, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped16 real palettes, including Sketch's brand system and Monzo's brand system put Blue beside #242556, as the accent.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Rain Garden and Blush put Blush Pink beside #242556, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #242556
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #242556 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 14.25:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.47:1 | 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 #242556 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
#242556 reads as cool, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #242556
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 #242556 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/242556-a09cc4-df964e-251f2d-e9edf1?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