Color
#28187c
#28187crgb(40, 24, 124)hsl(250, 68%, 29%)oklch(0.312 0.156 279.5)Colors that go with #28187c
Steel Blue, Charcoal 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.
Steel Blue #4682b4
analogousshippedSteel Blue is #28187c's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #28187c: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #28187c: 4 real palettes, including Purina Pro Plan's brand system and Tide's brand system, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #28187c in 5 real palettes, including Casper Sleep's brand system and Nintendo's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #28187c: 8 real palettes, including Bank of America's brand system and Panasonic's brand system, as the accent.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #28187c in 7 real palettes, including Discord's brand system and Confluent's brand system, as the lead colour.
Olive Green #808000
complementaryOlive Green sits directly opposite #28187c on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped3 real palettes, including Procter & Gamble's brand system and Alaska Airlines's brand system put Blue beside #28187c, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #28187c
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #28187c as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 13.89:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.51:1 | 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 #28187c 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
#28187c reads as cool, vivid, dark. 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 #28187c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/28187c-a79cc4-dfb14e-281f2d-e9ecf1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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