First Snow
Open in tool →Ice blue on snow-white with a deep navy — the quietest winter palette; everything is a tint of one cold hue.
Color
#274c86
#274c86
hex
#274c86rgb
rgb(39, 76, 134)hsl
hsl(217, 55%, 34%)oklch
oklch(0.421 0.106 259.1)Closest name: Assassin (#2d4f83)Relative luminance 0.0732
Colors that go with #274c86
Sea Green, Blue and Cornflower 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.
Sea Green #2e8b57
triadicshippedSea Green completes a triad with #274c86 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Blue #0000ff
shipped7 real palettes, including CVS's brand system and Tesco's brand system put Blue beside #274c86, as the supporting colour.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedDesigners have shipped Cornflower Blue with #274c86: 4 real palettes, including Blue Mono and Gopro's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #274c86 in 15 real palettes, including Pepsi's brand system and Walgreens's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Firebrick #b22222
shippedDesigners have shipped Firebrick with #274c86: 6 real palettes, including Campbell's's brand system and MLB's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #274c86 in 4 real palettes, including Sapphire & Gold and Open House, as the supporting colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped19 real palettes, including First Snow and Microsoft's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #274c86, as that palette's text colour.
White Smoke #f5f5f5
neutralWhite Smoke is the surface for #274c86: a clean near-white with no warm cast, so the cool hue stays clear instead of drifting muddy.
Real palettes that use #274c86
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #274c86 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 8.52:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.46:1 | 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 #274c86 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
#274c86 reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #274c86
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 #274c86 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/274c86-9ca7c4-df624e-201f2d-e9f0f1?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