Color

#253cbb

#253cbb
hex#253cbb
rgbrgb(37, 60, 187)
hslhsl(231, 67%, 44%)
oklchoklch(0.431 0.199 268.1)
Closest name: Cobalt Blue (#0047ab)Relative luminance 0.0721

Colors that go with #253cbb

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.

Real palettes that use #253cbb

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

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#bba525

#2587bb · #5a25bb

#bb253c · #3cbb25

Split-complementary

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#bb5a25 · #87bb25

#bb2587 · #bba525 · #25bb5a

Contrast

#253cbb as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
8.6:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.44:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #596dde as the text (4.67:1)
  • AAA: use #8492e7 as the text (7.25:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #bdbdbd (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #e8e8e8 (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 #253cbb 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

#253cbb reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #253cbb
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 #253cbb and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/253cbb-9c9ec4-df834e-231f2d-e9eef1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md