Alpine
Open in tool →Glacier blue with a safety-orange accent: technical outdoor gear, not lifestyle.
Color
#286f95
#286f95
hex
#286f95rgb
rgb(40, 111, 149)hsl
hsl(201, 58%, 37%)oklch
oklch(0.515 0.092 236.1)Closest name: Chill of the Night (#256d8d)Relative luminance 0.1399
Colors that go with #286f95
Charcoal, Crimson and Royal 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 #286f95: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Crimson #dc143c
split-complementshippedCrimson is a split-complement of #286f95: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Royal Blue #4169e1
analogousshippedRoyal Blue is #286f95's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #286f95 in 7 real palettes, including Lemon Squeezy's brand system and Wired's brand system, as the lead colour.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #286f95: 6 real palettes, including Fintech Trust and Glacier, as the lead colour.
Firebrick #b22222
shippedDesigners have shipped Firebrick with #286f95: 6 real palettes, including Wendy's's brand system and AT&T's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #286f95 in 4 real palettes, including Sapphire & Gold and Open House, as the supporting colour.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
shippedMedium Sea Green is paired with #286f95 in 5 real palettes, including Fintech Trust and Indigo SaaS, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #286f95
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #286f95 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.53:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 3.8:1 | 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 #286f95 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#286f95 reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #286f95
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #286f95 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/286f95-9cb1c4-df4e62-1f222d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md