Color
#261eb3
#261eb3rgb(38, 30, 179)hsl(243, 71%, 41%)oklch(0.381 0.217 271.6)Colors that go with #261eb3
Olive Green, Midnight Blue 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.
Olive Green #808000
complementaryOlive Green sits directly opposite #261eb3 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #261eb3 in 3 real palettes, including Blue Mono and Fintech Trust, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Steel Blue #4682b4
analogousshippedSteel Blue is #261eb3's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Sienna #a0522d
split-complementSienna is a split-complement of #261eb3: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
analogousshippedBlue Violet is #261eb3's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #261eb3: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #261eb3 in two real palettes: Dropbox's brand system and MongoDB's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Slate Gray #708090
shippedSlate Gray is paired with #261eb3 in two real palettes: Ink & Paper and Campus, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #261eb3
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #261eb3 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 10.94:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.92:1 | fail | fail | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #261eb3 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
#261eb3 reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #261eb3 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/261eb3-a39cc4-dfa04e-261f2d-e9edf1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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