Open House
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Color
#256993
#256993
hex
#256993rgb
rgb(37, 105, 147)hsl
hsl(203, 60%, 36%)oklch
oklch(0.498 0.095 240)Closest name: Chill of the Night (#256d8d)Relative luminance 0.126
Colors that go with #256993
Charcoal, Royal 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #256993: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Royal Blue #4169e1
analogousshippedRoyal Blue is #256993's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #256993 in 4 real palettes, including Retro Pop and Netflix's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod is paired with #256993 in 4 real palettes, including Open House and Sapphire & Gold, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
shippedMedium Sea Green is paired with #256993 in 4 real palettes, including Fintech Trust and Indigo SaaS, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #256993 in 4 real palettes, including Open House and Fintech Trust, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Orange Red #ff4500
shippedOrange Red is paired with #256993 in 4 real palettes, including PlanetScale's brand system and Strava's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #256993 in 12 real palettes, including Dusk and Mid-Century, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #256993
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #256993 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.96:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 3.52:1 | fail | pass | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #256993 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
#256993 reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #256993
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 #256993 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/256993-9cb0c4-df4e5d-1f222d-e9f1f0?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