Color

#283971

#283971
hex#283971
rgbrgb(40, 57, 113)
hslhsl(226, 48%, 30%)
oklchoklch(0.362 0.099 268.4)
Closest name: Aegean Blue (#1b416f)Relative luminance 0.0457

Colors that go with #283971

Steel Blue, 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#716028

#285e71 · #3b2871

#712839 · #397128

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#713b28 · #5e7128

#71285e · #716028 · #28713b

Contrast

#283971 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
10.97:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.91:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #5972c5 as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #8295d3 as the text (7.19:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #a6a6a6 (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #cfcfcf (7.04:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #283971 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

#283971 reads as cool, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #283971
live endpoint

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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #283971 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/283971-9ca1c4-df774e-221f2d-e9eff1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md