Color

#285e8a

#285e8a
hex#285e8a
rgbrgb(40, 94, 138)
hslhsl(207, 55%, 35%)
oklchoklch(0.467 0.092 246.1)
Closest name: Blue Velvet (#0d6183)Relative luminance 0.1029

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8a5428

#288a85 · #282d8a

#8a285e · #5e8a28

Split-complementary

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#8a282d · #8a8528

#85288a · #8a5428 · #2d8a28

Contrast

#285e8a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
6.87:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #275b86 as the text (7.17:1)
Aaon black
3.06:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #3479b2 as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #5d9cd0 as the text (7.13:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #d4d4d4 (4.63:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #285e8a 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

#285e8a reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #285e8a
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 #285e8a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/285e8a-9cadc4-df4e53-1f212d-e9f1f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md