Color

#252ba7

#252ba7
hex#252ba7
rgbrgb(37, 43, 167)
hslhsl(237, 64%, 40%)
oklchoklch(0.384 0.192 270.9)
Closest name: Depths of Night (#2c319b)Relative luminance 0.0491

Colors that go with #252ba7

Charcoal, Steel Blue and 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

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#a7a125

#256da7 · #5f25a7

#a7252b · #2ba725

Split-complementary

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#a75f25 · #6da725

#a7256d · #a7a125 · #25a75f

Contrast

#252ba7 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
10.59:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.98:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #646add as the text (4.65:1)
  • AAA: use #8a8ee5 as the text (7.08:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #ababab (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #d4d4d4 (7.15:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #252ba7 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

#252ba7 reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #252ba7
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 #252ba7 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/252ba7-9f9cc4-df924e-251f2d-e9edf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md