Color

#283d6c

#283d6c
hex#283d6c
rgbrgb(40, 61, 108)
hslhsl(221, 46%, 29%)
oklchoklch(0.368 0.085 264.4)
Closest name: Aegean Blue (#1b416f)Relative luminance 0.0487

Colors that go with #283d6c

Steel Blue, Blue and Blush Pink 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 →

#6c5628

#285f6c · #34286c

#6c283d · #3d6c28

Split-complementary

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#6c3428 · #5f6c28

#6c285f · #6c5628 · #286c34

Contrast

#283d6c as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
10.64:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.97:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #5073be as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #7d97cf as the text (7.2:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #ababab (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #d4d4d4 (7.18:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #283d6c 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

#283d6c reads as cool, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #283d6c
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 #283d6c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/283d6c-9ca4c4-df6b4e-211f2d-e9eff1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md