Color
#280bbc
#280bbcrgb(40, 11, 188)hsl(250, 89%, 39%)oklch(0.379 0.237 272.1)Colors that go with #280bbc
Charcoal, 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #280bbc: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Pfizer's brand system and Pepsi's brand system put Blue beside #280bbc, as the supporting colour.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedDesigners have shipped Cornflower Blue with #280bbc: 5 real palettes, including Blue Mono and Peacock's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #280bbc: 5 real palettes, including Google's brand system and Warbyparker's brand system, as the accent.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #280bbc: 5 real palettes, including Absolut's brand system and Cargo's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped7 real palettes, including Blue Mono and Monzo's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #280bbc, as that palette's text colour.
Orange Red #ff4500
shippedOrange Red is paired with #280bbc in 6 real palettes, including Intercom's brand system and Tide's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Steel Blue #4682b4
analogousshippedSteel Blue is #280bbc'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 #280bbc
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #280bbc as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 11.26:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.86:1 | 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 #280bbc 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
#280bbc 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 #280bbc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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