Color

#280a8a

#280a8a
hex#280a8a
rgbrgb(40, 10, 138)
hslhsl(254, 86%, 29%)
oklchoklch(0.315 0.183 278.3)
Closest name: Dramatic Blue (#240093)Relative luminance 0.025

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#6c8a0a

#0a2c8a · #680a8a

#8a280a · #0a8a28

Split-complementary

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#8a680a · #2c8a0a

#8a0a2c · #6c8a0a · #0a8a68

Contrast

#280a8a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
13.99:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.5:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7d59f3 as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #9e84f6 as the text (7.09:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #949494 (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #b8b8b8 (7.05:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #280a8a 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

#280a8a reads as cool, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #280a8a
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #280a8a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/280a8a-aa9cc4-dfbb4e-291f2d-e9ebf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md