Color
#283b71
#283b71rgb(40, 59, 113)hsl(224, 48%, 30%)oklch(0.367 0.096 267)Colors that go with #283b71
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.
Steel Blue #4682b4
analogousshippedSteel Blue is #283b71's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Blue #0000ff
shippedBlue is paired with #283b71 in 7 real palettes, including Alaska Airlines's brand system and CVS's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #283b71 in 6 real palettes, including Marvel's brand system and Casper Sleep's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #283b71 in 12 real palettes, including Hasbro's brand system and Hinge's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Light Sea Green #20b2aa
shippedLight Sea Green is paired with #283b71 in 5 real palettes, including Confluent's brand system and Lagoon, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Orange Red #ff4500
shippedOrange Red is paired with #283b71 in 5 real palettes, including Tumblr's brand system and Tide's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedPowder Blue is paired with #283b71 in 8 real palettes, including Glacier and Frost & Ember, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
White Smoke #f5f5f5
neutralWhite Smoke is the surface for #283b71: a clean near-white with no warm cast, so the cool hue stays clear instead of drifting muddy.
Real palettes that use #283b71
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #283b71 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 10.75:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.95:1 | 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 #283b71 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
#283b71 reads as cool, dark, luxury. 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 #283b71 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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