Color
#285840
#285840rgb(40, 88, 64)hsl(150, 38%, 25%)oklch(0.419 0.067 159.8)Colors that go with #285840
Blue, Crimson and Denim 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 Rolex's brand system and Jeep's brand system put Blue beside #285840, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #285840 in 4 real palettes, including Codecademy's brand system and MAC Cosmetics's brand system, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #285840: 4 real palettes, including Hinge's brand system and Jack Daniel's's brand system, as the accent.
Emerald Green #50c878
shippedEmerald Green is paired with #285840 in 4 real palettes, including Neon's brand system and CircleCI's brand system, as the lead colour.
Orange Red #ff4500
shippedOrange Red is paired with #285840 in 4 real palettes, including Neon's brand system and HubSpot's brand system, as the accent.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #285840 in 6 real palettes, including Console Light and Disney's brand system, as the lead colour.
White Smoke #f5f5f5
neutralWhite Smoke is the surface for #285840: a clean near-white with no warm cast, so the cool hue stays clear instead of drifting muddy.
Teal #008080
analogousshippedTeal is #285840's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Real palettes that use #285840
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #285840 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 8.2:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.56:1 | 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 #285840 as the background.
Brands using this color
Fonts for this mood
#285840 reads as dark, luxury, bold. 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 #285840 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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