Color
#285cbd
#285cbdrgb(40, 92, 189)hsl(219, 65%, 45%)oklch(0.496 0.163 261.4)Colors that go with #285cbd
Charcoal, Amber and 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 #285cbd: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #285cbd in 6 real palettes, including Warner Bros.'s brand system and Wikipedia's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Blue #0000ff
shippedBlue is paired with #285cbd in 11 real palettes, including Pixar's brand system and Zillow's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedCornflower Blue is paired with #285cbd in 6 real palettes, including Coca-Cola's brand system and NBA's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #285cbd in 13 real palettes, including Chase's brand system and Netflix's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDeep Sky Blue is paired with #285cbd in 5 real palettes, including Deep Water and Astro's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Firebrick #b22222
shippedFirebrick is paired with #285cbd in 5 real palettes, including Campbell's's brand system and Nissan's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Sienna #a0522d
complementarySienna sits directly opposite #285cbd on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #285cbd
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #285cbd as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.26:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.36:1 | fail | pass | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #285cbd as the background.
Brands using this color
- Chaseprimary · #045cbb · Δ1.735
- Campbell'saccent · #3860be · Δ1.927
- Coca-Colaaccent · #3860be · Δ1.927
- Guinnessaccent · #3860be · Δ1.927
- Heinzaccent · #3860be · Δ1.927
- Hingeaccent · #3860be · Δ1.927
- Jack Daniel'sprimary · #3860be · Δ1.927
- Maybellineaccent · #3860be · Δ1.927
- Netflixaccent · #3860be · Δ1.927
- Nikonsecondary · #3860be · Δ1.927
- Paramount+primary · #3860be · Δ1.927
- Pixarsecondary · #3860be · Δ1.927
- Starlinksecondary · #3860be · Δ1.927
- Ulta Beautysecondary · #3860be · Δ1.927
- Victoria's Secretaccent · #3860be · Δ1.927
- Warner Bros.secondary · #3860be · Δ1.927
- Hasbrosecondary · #005eb8 · Δ1.979
Fonts for this mood
#285cbd reads as cool, vivid, technical. 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 #285cbd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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