Arctic
Open in tool →Navy type on white with an ice-blue accent: crisp and corporate without going grey.
Color
#269ee3
#269ee3
hex
#269ee3rgb
rgb(38, 158, 227)hsl
hsl(202, 77%, 52%)oklch
oklch(0.668 0.143 240.5)Closest name: Blue Burst (#309cd0)Relative luminance 0.3041
Colors that go with #269ee3
Charcoal, Bronze and Tomato 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 #269ee3: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Bronze #cd7f32
complementaryBronze sits directly opposite #269ee3 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Tomato #ff6347
split-complementshippedTomato is a split-complement of #269ee3: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #269ee3 in 3 real palettes, including Heatwave and Blueprint, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #269ee3 in 3 real palettes, including Blue Mono and First Snow, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #269ee3 in 3 real palettes, including Notion's brand system and Dusk, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Goldenrod #b8860b
split-complementDark Goldenrod is a split-complement of #269ee3: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
analogousshippedCadet Blue is #269ee3's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Real palettes that use #269ee3
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #269ee3 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.97:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.08:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #269ee3 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
#269ee3 reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #269ee3
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 #269ee3 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/269ee3-9cb1c4-df4e5f-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