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
#385e80
#385e80
hex
#385e80rgb
rgb(56, 94, 128)hsl
hsl(208, 39%, 36%)oklch
oklch(0.469 0.071 246.9)Closest name: Atlantis (#336172)Relative luminance 0.104
Colors that go with #385e80
Sienna, Amber and Cobalt 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.
Sienna #a0522d
complementaryshippedSienna sits directly opposite #385e80 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 #385e80 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 #385e80: 5 real palettes, including Fintech Trust and Glacier, as the lead colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #385e80: 4 real palettes, including Dusk and Desert Road, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #385e80 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 #385e80: 5 real palettes, including Wendy's's brand system and Fireside, as the supporting colour.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #385e80 in 4 real palettes, including Open House and Mid-Century, as the accent.
White Smoke #f5f5f5
neutralWhite Smoke is the surface for #385e80: a clean near-white with no warm cast, so the cool hue stays clear instead of drifting muddy.
Real palettes that use #385e80
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #385e80 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.82:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 3.08:1 | 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 #385e80 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#385e80 reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #385e80
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 #385e80 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/385e80-9cadc4-df4e51-1f212d-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