First Snow
Open in tool →Ice blue on snow-white with a deep navy — the quietest winter palette; everything is a tint of one cold hue.
Color
#28497b
#28497b
hex
#28497brgb
rgb(40, 73, 123)hsl
hsl(216, 51%, 32%)oklch
oklch(0.407 0.093 258.5)Closest name: Blue Funk (#2d4470)Relative luminance 0.0665
Colors that go with #28497b
Blue, Cadet 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.
Blue #0000ff
shipped6 real palettes, including Alaska Airlines's brand system and CVS's brand system put Blue beside #28497b, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #28497b: 4 real palettes, including Dusk and Open House, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #28497b in 11 real palettes, including Walgreens's brand system and Codecademy's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #28497b: 16 real palettes, including Unilever's brand system and Hinge's brand system, as the accent.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #28497b in 4 real palettes, including Sapphire & Gold and Disney's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped18 real palettes, including First Snow and Microsoft's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #28497b, as that palette's text colour.
White Smoke #f5f5f5
neutralWhite Smoke is the surface for #28497b: a clean near-white with no warm cast, so the cool hue stays clear instead of drifting muddy.
Sea Green #2e8b57
triadicshippedSea Green completes a triad with #28497b — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Real palettes that use #28497b
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #28497b as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 9.02:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.33:1 | 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 #28497b as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#28497b reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #28497b
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 #28497b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/28497b-9ca7c4-df5f4e-201f2d-e9f0f1?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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