Color

#281bb6

#281bb6
hex#281bb6
rgbrgb(40, 27, 182)
hslhsl(245, 74%, 41%)
oklchoklch(0.383 0.222 272.1)
Closest name: Galactic Highway (#3311bb)Relative luminance 0.0461

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a9b61b

#1b5cb6 · #751bb6

#b6281b · #1bb628

Split-complementary

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#b6751b · #5cb61b

#b61b5c · #a9b61b · #1bb675

Contrast

#281bb6 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
10.92:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.92:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6f64e8 as the text (4.66:1)
  • AAA: use #948cee as the text (7.25:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #a8a8a8 (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #cfcfcf (7.01:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #281bb6 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

#281bb6 reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #281bb6
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 #281bb6 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/281bb6-a49cc4-dfa54e-261f2d-e9ecf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md