Color
#38178c
#38178crgb(56, 23, 140)hsl(257, 72%, 32%)oklch(0.343 0.174 285.6)Colors that go with #38178c
Royal Blue, Cobalt 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.
Royal Blue #4169e1
analogousshippedRoyal Blue is #38178c's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #38178c: 4 real palettes, including Tide's brand system and Purina Pro Plan's brand system, as the lead colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #38178c in 6 real palettes, including Pepsi's brand system and Casper Sleep's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #38178c: 5 real palettes, including Bank of America's brand system and Warbyparker's brand system, as the accent.
Steel Blue #4682b4
shippedDesigners have shipped Steel Blue with #38178c: 5 real palettes, including FedEx's brand system and Hershey's's brand system, as the accent.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #38178c in 4 real palettes, including Boeing's brand system and Gillette's brand system, as that palette's text colour.
Olive Green #808000
complementaryOlive Green sits directly opposite #38178c on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #38178c: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Real palettes that use #38178c
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #38178c as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 12.58:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.67:1 | 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 #38178c 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
#38178c reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #38178c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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