Color

#2e428a

#2e428a
hex#2e428a
rgbrgb(46, 66, 138)
hslhsl(227, 50%, 36%)
oklchoklch(0.404 0.122 268.7)
Closest name: Cascade Twilight (#234893)Relative luminance 0.0631

Colors that go with #2e428a

Steel Blue, Blue and Crimson 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#8a762e

#2e708a · #482e8a

#8a2e42 · #428a2e

Split-complementary

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#8a482e · #708a2e

#8a2e70 · #8a762e · #2e8a48

Contrast

#2e428a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
9.28:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.26:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #576fc7 as the text (4.5:1)
  • AAA: use #8193d5 as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #b5b5b5 (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #e0e0e0 (7.03:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #2e428a 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

#2e428a reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #2e428a
live endpoint

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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #2e428a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/2e428a-9ca0c4-df7a4e-221f2d-e9eff1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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