Color

#251ea4

#251ea4
hex#251ea4
rgbrgb(37, 30, 164)
hslhsl(243, 69%, 38%)
oklchoklch(0.363 0.2 272.4)
Closest name: Deepsea Kraken (#082599)Relative luminance 0.04

Colors that go with #251ea4

Steel Blue, Blue and Crimson 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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#9da41e

#1e5aa4 · #681ea4

#a4251e · #1ea425

Split-complementary

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#a4681e · #5aa41e

#a41e5a · #9da41e · #1ea468

Contrast

#251ea4 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
11.66:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.8:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6a64e3 as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #8f8bea as the text (7.05:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #a1a1a1 (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #c9c9c9 (7.04:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #251ea4 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

#251ea4 reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #251ea4
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 #251ea4 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/251ea4-a39cc4-dfa04e-261f2d-e9edf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md