Color

#243e8f

#243e8f
hex#243e8f
rgbrgb(36, 62, 143)
hslhsl(225, 60%, 35%)
oklchoklch(0.395 0.138 266.5)
Closest name: Cascade Twilight (#234893)Relative luminance 0.058

Colors that go with #243e8f

Charcoal, Sea Green and Steel 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

Open in tool →

#8f7424

#24748f · #3e248f

#8f243e · #3e8f24

Split-complementary

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#8f3e24 · #748f24

#8f2474 · #8f7424 · #248f3e

Contrast

#243e8f as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
9.72:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.16:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #5070d3 as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #7c95de as the text (7.21:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #b3b3b3 (4.64:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #dbdbdb (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 #243e8f as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#243e8f reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #243e8f
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 #243e8f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/243e8f-9ca1c4-df754e-221f2d-e9eff1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md