Color
#3c5bb9
#3c5bb9rgb(60, 91, 185)hsl(225, 51%, 48%)oklch(0.5 0.153 267)Colors that go with #3c5bb9
Charcoal, Sea Green 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 #3c5bb9: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Sea Green #2e8b57
triadicshippedSea Green completes a triad with #3c5bb9 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #3c5bb9 in 8 real palettes, including Warner Bros.'s brand system and Wikipedia's brand system, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped12 real palettes, including Pixar's brand system and Activision's brand system put Blue beside #3c5bb9, as the accent.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedDesigners have shipped Cornflower Blue with #3c5bb9: 7 real palettes, including Coca-Cola's brand system and Gopro's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #3c5bb9 in 19 real palettes, including Netflix's brand system and Ulta Beauty's brand system, as the lead colour.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #3c5bb9: 7 real palettes, including Venmo's brand system and Astro's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #3c5bb9: 6 real palettes, including Apple's brand system and HashiCorp's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #3c5bb9
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #3c5bb9 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.2:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.39:1 | 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 #3c5bb9 as the background.
Brands using this color
- Campbell'saccent · #3860be · Δ1.429
- Coca-Colaaccent · #3860be · Δ1.429
- Guinnessaccent · #3860be · Δ1.429
- Heinzaccent · #3860be · Δ1.429
- Hingeaccent · #3860be · Δ1.429
- Jack Daniel'sprimary · #3860be · Δ1.429
- L'Oréalaccent · #3860be · Δ1.429
- Maybellineaccent · #3860be · Δ1.429
- Netflixaccent · #3860be · Δ1.429
- Nikonsecondary · #3860be · Δ1.429
- Paramount+primary · #3860be · Δ1.429
- Pixarsecondary · #3860be · Δ1.429
- Starlinksecondary · #3860be · Δ1.429
- Ulta Beautysecondary · #3860be · Δ1.429
- Victoria's Secretaccent · #3860be · Δ1.429
- Warner Bros.secondary · #3860be · Δ1.429
Fonts for this mood
#3c5bb9 reads as cool, modern. 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 #3c5bb9 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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