Color
#281cce
#281ccergb(40, 28, 206)hsl(244, 76%, 46%)oklch(0.413 0.248 270.5)Colors that go with #281cce
Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and Crimson 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 #281cce: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedDesigners have shipped Cornflower Blue with #281cce: 6 real palettes, including Qualcomm's brand system and Canva's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #281cce in 5 real palettes, including Behance's brand system and Dunkin''s brand system, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #281cce: 7 real palettes, including Unilever's brand system and Activision's brand system, as the accent.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #281cce: 6 real palettes, including Absolut's brand system and Cargo's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
shippedMedium Sea Green is paired with #281cce in 4 real palettes, including Spotify's brand system and Unity's brand system, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped11 real palettes, including Monzo's brand system and Sketch's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #281cce, as the lead colour.
Olive Green #808000
complementaryOlive Green sits directly opposite #281cce on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #281cce
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #281cce as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 9.78:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.15:1 | 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 #281cce 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
#281cce 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 #281cce and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/281cce-a39cc4-dfa24e-261f2d-e9edf1?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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