Color

#285e8f

#285e8f
hex#285e8f
rgbrgb(40, 94, 143)
hslhsl(209, 56%, 36%)
oklchoklch(0.47 0.098 248.8)
Closest name: Blue Velvet (#0d6183)Relative luminance 0.1044

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8f5a28

#288f8d · #282a8f

#8f285e · #5e8f28

Split-complementary

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#8f282a · #8f8d28

#8d288f · #8f5a28 · #2a8f28

Contrast

#285e8f as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
6.8:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #275b8b as the text (7.11:1)
Aaon black
3.09:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #357abb as the text (4.65:1)
  • AAA: use #609bd2 as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #d4d4d4 (4.59:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #285e8f 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

#285e8f reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #285e8f
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 #285e8f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/285e8f-9cacc4-df4e4e-1f212d-e9f1f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md