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
#36577c
#36577c
hex
#36577crgb
rgb(54, 87, 124)hsl
hsl(212, 39%, 35%)oklch
oklch(0.448 0.072 252.3)Closest name: Deep Indigo (#4c567a)Relative luminance 0.0906
Colors that go with #36577c
Sea Green, Sienna and 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 #36577c — 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 #36577c on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped7 real palettes, including Tesco's brand system and CVS's brand system put Blue beside #36577c, as the supporting colour.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #36577c: 4 real palettes, including Dusk and Open House, as the supporting colour.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedDesigners have shipped Cornflower Blue with #36577c: 4 real palettes, including Coca-Cola's brand system and Blizzard's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #36577c in 14 real palettes, including Codecademy's brand system and Walgreens's brand system, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #36577c: 16 real palettes, including HP's brand system and Dutch Bros's brand system, as the accent.
White Smoke #f5f5f5
neutralWhite Smoke is the surface for #36577c: a clean near-white with no warm cast, so the cool hue stays clear instead of drifting muddy.
Real palettes that use #36577c
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #36577c as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 7.47:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.81:1 | 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 #36577c 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
#36577c reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #36577c
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 #36577c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/36577c-9caac4-df564e-1f202d-e9f1f1?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