First Snow
Open in tool →Ice blue on snow-white with a deep navy — the quietest winter palette; everything is a tint of one cold hue.
Color
#2a497e
#2a497e
hex
#2a497ergb
rgb(42, 73, 126)hsl
hsl(218, 50%, 33%)oklch
oklch(0.41 0.097 260.4)Closest name: Assassin (#2d4f83)Relative luminance 0.0676
Colors that go with #2a497e
Sea Green, Blue and Cornflower 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.
Sea Green #2e8b57
triadicshippedSea Green completes a triad with #2a497e — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Blue #0000ff
shipped7 real palettes, including CVS's brand system and Alaska Airlines's brand system put Blue beside #2a497e, as the supporting colour.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedDesigners have shipped Cornflower Blue with #2a497e: 4 real palettes, including Blue Mono and Blizzard's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #2a497e in 13 real palettes, including Walgreens's brand system and Codecademy's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #2a497e: 15 real palettes, including Unilever's brand system and Hinge's brand system, as the accent.
Firebrick #b22222
shippedDesigners have shipped Firebrick with #2a497e: 4 real palettes, including Nintendo's brand system and Fireside, as the accent.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #2a497e in 4 real palettes, including Sapphire & Gold and Disney's brand system, as the supporting colour.
White Smoke #f5f5f5
neutralWhite Smoke is the surface for #2a497e: a clean near-white with no warm cast, so the cool hue stays clear instead of drifting muddy.
Real palettes that use #2a497e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #2a497e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 8.93:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.35:1 | fail | fail | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #2a497e 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
#2a497e reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #2a497e
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 #2a497e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/2a497e-9ca6c4-df644e-201f2d-e9f0f1?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