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
#385d85
#385d85
hex
#385d85rgb
rgb(56, 93, 133)hsl
hsl(211, 41%, 37%)oklch
oklch(0.469 0.078 251.5)Closest name: Blue Velvet (#0d6183)Relative luminance 0.1036
Colors that go with #385d85
Charcoal, Sienna and Amber 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 #385d85: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Sienna #a0522d
complementaryshippedSienna sits directly opposite #385d85 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 #385d85 in 4 real palettes, including Lemon Squeezy's brand system and Warner Bros.'s brand system, as the lead colour.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #385d85: 5 real palettes, including Fintech Trust and Glacier, as the lead colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #385d85 in 12 real palettes, including Amazon's brand system and Codecademy's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Firebrick #b22222
shippedDesigners have shipped Firebrick with #385d85: 5 real palettes, including Wendy's's brand system and AT&T's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #385d85 in 4 real palettes, including Open House and Sapphire & Gold, as the accent.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
shippedMedium Sea Green is paired with #385d85 in 5 real palettes, including Fintech Trust and Console Light, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #385d85
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #385d85 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.83:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 3.07:1 | 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 #385d85 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#385d85 reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #385d85
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 #385d85 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/385d85-9cabc4-df534e-1f202d-e9f1f1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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