Sapphire & Gold
Open in tool →Deep sapphire and gold with a teal — old-money jewel tones on an ivory ground; heraldic without a crest.
Color
#283d8f
#283d8f
hex
#283d8frgb
rgb(40, 61, 143)hsl
hsl(228, 56%, 36%)oklch
oklch(0.394 0.138 268.5)Closest name: Cascade Twilight (#234893)Relative luminance 0.0577
Colors that go with #283d8f
Charcoal, Sea Green and Steel Blue 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #283d8f: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Sea Green #2e8b57
triadicshippedSea Green completes a triad with #283d8f — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Steel Blue #4682b4
analogousshippedSteel Blue is #283d8f's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Blue #0000ff
shipped6 real palettes, including Procter & Gamble's brand system and CVS's brand system put Blue beside #283d8f, as the supporting colour.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedDesigners have shipped Cornflower Blue with #283d8f: 4 real palettes, including Blue Mono and Peacock's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #283d8f in 14 real palettes, including Pepsi's brand system and Walgreens's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #283d8f: 15 real palettes, including Unilever's brand system and Warbyparker's brand system, as the accent.
Firebrick #b22222
shippedDesigners have shipped Firebrick with #283d8f: 5 real palettes, including Nintendo's brand system and MLB's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #283d8f
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #283d8f as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 9.75:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.15:1 | 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 #283d8f as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#283d8f reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #283d8f
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #283d8f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/283d8f-9c9fc4-df7c4e-231f2d-e9eff1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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