Color

#281bbb

#281bbb
hex#281bbb
rgbrgb(40, 27, 187)
hslhsl(245, 75%, 42%)
oklchoklch(0.389 0.228 271.8)
Closest name: Galactic Highway (#3311bb)Relative luminance 0.0482

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#aebb1b

#1b5ebb · #781bbb

#bb281b · #1bbb28

Split-complementary

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#bb781b · #5ebb1b

#bb1b5e · #aebb1b · #1bbb78

Contrast

#281bbb as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
10.69:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.96:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6e63e9 as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #938bee as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #ababab (4.65:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #d4d4d4 (7.21:1)

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

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

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

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

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Machine-readable: color.md