Color
#3d488f
#3d488frgb(61, 72, 143)hsl(232, 40%, 40%)oklch(0.43 0.117 273.8)Colors that go with #3d488f
Charcoal, Sea Green and Steel 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #3d488f: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Sea Green #2e8b57
triadicshippedSea Green completes a triad with #3d488f — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Steel Blue #4682b4
analogousshippedSteel Blue is #3d488f's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including CVS's brand system and Procter & Gamble's brand system put Blue beside #3d488f, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #3d488f in 10 real palettes, including Amazon's brand system and Chase's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped13 real palettes, including First Snow and Microsoft's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #3d488f, as that palette's text colour.
Orange Red #ff4500
shippedOrange Red is paired with #3d488f in 4 real palettes, including Tide's brand system and Tumblr's brand system, as the accent.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #3d488f: 4 real palettes, including First Snow and Glacier, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #3d488f
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #3d488f as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 8.33:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.52:1 | 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 #3d488f 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
#3d488f 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 #3d488f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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