Alpine
Open in tool →Glacier blue with a safety-orange accent: technical outdoor gear, not lifestyle.
Color
#356f82
#356f82
hex
#356f82rgb
rgb(53, 111, 130)hsl
hsl(195, 42%, 36%)oklch
oklch(0.511 0.067 222)Closest name: Astral (#376f89)Relative luminance 0.1374
Colors that go with #356f82
Charcoal, Firebrick 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 #356f82: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Firebrick #b22222
split-complementshippedFirebrick is a split-complement of #356f82: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Sienna #a0522d
complementaryshippedSienna sits directly opposite #356f82 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 #356f82 in 5 real palettes, including Lemon Squeezy's brand system and McDonald's's brand system, as the lead colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Activision's brand system and Warp's brand system put Blue beside #356f82, as the accent.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #356f82: 6 real palettes, including Fintech Trust and Ink & Paper, as the lead colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #356f82: 5 real palettes, including Dusk and Desert Road, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #356f82 in 16 real palettes, including Gemstone and Wendy's's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #356f82
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #356f82 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.6:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 3.75:1 | 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 #356f82 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
#356f82 reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #356f82
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 #356f82 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/356f82-9cb5c4-df4e70-1f242d-e9f1ef?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