Color
#280fe6
#280fe6rgb(40, 15, 230)hsl(247, 88%, 48%)oklch(0.435 0.279 269.4)Colors that go with #280fe6
Charcoal, Crimson and Cobalt 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 #280fe6: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Crimson #dc143c
triadicshippedCrimson completes a triad with #280fe6 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #280fe6: 4 real palettes, including CVS's brand system and Procter & Gamble's brand system, as the accent.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedDesigners have shipped Cornflower Blue with #280fe6: 4 real palettes, including Qualcomm's brand system and Spotify's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #280fe6: 5 real palettes, including Cargo's brand system and Readymag's brand system, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped7 real palettes, including Monzo's brand system and Sketch's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #280fe6, as the lead colour.
Orange Red #ff4500
shippedOrange Red is paired with #280fe6 in 6 real palettes, including Monzo's brand system and Readymag's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Red #ff0000
shippedRed is paired with #280fe6 in 5 real palettes, including Gap's brand system and native Cybersecurity's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #280fe6
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #280fe6 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 9.13:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.3:1 | 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 #280fe6 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
#280fe6 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 #280fe6 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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