Color

#285b8a

#285b8a
hex#285b8a
rgbrgb(40, 91, 138)
hslhsl(209, 55%, 35%)
oklchoklch(0.46 0.094 249)
Closest name: Blue Velvet (#0d6183)Relative luminance 0.0977

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8a5828

#288a89 · #282a8a

#8a285b · #5b8a28

Split-complementary

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#8a282a · #8a8928

#89288a · #8a5828 · #2a8a28

Contrast

#285b8a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.11:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.95:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #367aba as the text (4.65:1)
  • AAA: use #619bd1 as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #cfcfcf (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #ffffff (7.11:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #285b8a 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

#285b8a reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #285b8a
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #285b8a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/285b8a-9cacc4-df4e4e-1f212d-e9f1f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md