Color

#280c64

#280c64
hex#280c64
rgbrgb(40, 12, 100)
hslhsl(259, 79%, 22%)
oklchoklch(0.27 0.138 287.5)
Closest name: Blackmail (#220066)Relative luminance 0.0163

Colors that go with #280c64

Charcoal, Royal Blue and Cadet 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#48640c

#0c1c64 · #540c64

#64280c · #0c6428

Split-complementary

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#64540c · #1c640c

#640c1c · #48640c · #0c6454

Contrast

#280c64 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
15.83:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.33:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8556eb as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #a684f1 as the text (7.19:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #8a8a8a (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #adadad (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 #280c64 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

#280c64 reads as cool, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #280c64
live endpoint

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.

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

analyze #280c64 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/280c64-ad9cc4-dfc74e-2a1f2d-e9ebf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md