Color

#283c76

#283c76
hex#283c76
rgbrgb(40, 60, 118)
hslhsl(225, 49%, 31%)
oklchoklch(0.373 0.102 267.1)
Closest name: Aegean Blue (#1b416f)Relative luminance 0.0499

Colors that go with #283c76

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

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#766228

#286276 · #3c2876

#76283c · #3c7628

Split-complementary

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#763c28 · #627628

#762862 · #766228 · #28763c

Contrast

#283c76 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
10.51:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #5873c6 as the text (4.68:1)
  • AAA: use #7e93d3 as the text (7:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #ababab (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #d4d4d4 (7.09:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #283c76 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

#283c76 reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #283c76
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 #283c76 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/283c76-9ca1c4-df754e-221f2d-e9eff1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md