Color
#283d7b
#283d7brgb(40, 61, 123)hsl(225, 51%, 32%)oklch(0.379 0.109 267.1)Colors that go with #283d7b
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 #283d7b'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 #283d7b in 4 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 #283d7b in 6 real palettes, including Casper Sleep's brand system and Marvel's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #283d7b 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.
Orange Red #ff4500
shippedOrange Red is paired with #283d7b in 4 real palettes, including Tide's brand system and Tumblr's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedPowder Blue is paired with #283d7b in 5 real palettes, including Glacier and First Snow, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #283d7b in 10 real palettes, including Confluent's brand system and Zoom's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
White Smoke #f5f5f5
neutralWhite Smoke is the surface for #283d7b: a clean near-white with no warm cast, so the cool hue stays clear instead of drifting muddy.
Real palettes that use #283d7b
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #283d7b as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 10.28:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.04:1 | 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 #283d7b 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
#283d7b reads as cool, modern. 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 #283d7b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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