Harbour
Open in tool →Steel blue and haze with a buoy orange on a pale grey — the maritime palette every port town uses for a reason.
Color
#355a88
#355a88
hex
#355a88rgb
rgb(53, 90, 136)hsl
hsl(213, 44%, 37%)oklch
oklch(0.462 0.087 254.7)Closest name: Dusk (#4e5481)Relative luminance 0.0985
Colors that go with #355a88
Charcoal, Sea Green and Sienna 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 #355a88: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Sea Green #2e8b57
triadicshippedSea Green completes a triad with #355a88 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Sienna #a0522d
complementaryshippedSienna sits directly opposite #355a88 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #355a88 in 5 real palettes, including McDonald's's brand system and Warner Bros.'s brand system, as the lead colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped6 real palettes, including Tesco's brand system and CVS's brand system put Blue beside #355a88, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #355a88 in 17 real palettes, including Costco's brand system and Walgreens's brand system, as the lead colour.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #355a88: 4 real palettes, including Venmo's brand system and Lamborghini's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Firebrick #b22222
shippedDesigners have shipped Firebrick with #355a88: 6 real palettes, including AT&T's brand system and Wendy's's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #355a88
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #355a88 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 7.07:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.97:1 | 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 #355a88 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
#355a88 reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #355a88
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 #355a88 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/355a88-9ca9c4-df584e-1f202d-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