Color

#280b56

#280b56
hex#280b56
rgbrgb(40, 11, 86)
hslhsl(263, 77%, 19%)
oklchoklch(0.254 0.122 292.9)
Closest name: Hollow Knight (#330055)Relative luminance 0.0136

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#39560b

#0b1456 · #4d0b56

#56280b · #0b5628

Split-complementary

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#564d0b · #14560b

#560b14 · #39560b · #0b564d

Contrast

#280b56 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
16.5:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.27:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8d53e9 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #ab81ef as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #878787 (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #ababab (7.19:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #280b56 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

#280b56 reads as cool, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #280b56
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 #280b56 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/280b56-b09cc4-dfd04e-2b1f2d-e9eaf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md