Color

#280da0

#280da0
hex#280da0
rgbrgb(40, 13, 160)
hslhsl(251, 85%, 34%)
oklchoklch(0.344 0.206 274.9)
Closest name: Dramatic Blue (#240093)Relative luminance 0.0328

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#85a00d

#0d3ca0 · #720da0

#a0280d · #0da028

Split-complementary

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#a0720d · #3ca00d

#a00d3c · #85a00d · #0da072

Contrast

#280da0 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
12.69:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.66:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #765af2 as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #9d89f5 as the text (7.33:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #9c9c9c (4.62:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #c2c2c2 (7.12:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #280da0 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

#280da0 reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #280da0
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 #280da0 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/280da0-a89cc4-dfb34e-281f2d-e9ecf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md