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
#405887rgb(64, 88, 135)hsl(220, 36%, 39%)oklch(0.463 0.082 263)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 is the text near-black for #405887: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Sea Green completes a triad with #405887 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Steel Blue is #405887's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Sienna sits directly opposite #405887 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber is paired with #405887 in 5 real palettes, including McDonald's's brand system and Warner Bros.'s brand system, as the lead colour.
6 real palettes, including Tesco's brand system and CVS's brand system put Blue beside #405887, as the supporting colour.
Crimson is paired with #405887 in 16 real palettes, including Walgreens's brand system and Costco's brand system, as the lead colour.
Designers have shipped Firebrick with #405887: 6 real palettes, including Campbell's's brand system and AT&T's brand system, as the supporting colour.
| #405887 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 7.09:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.96:1 | 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 #405887 as the background.
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
#405887 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 #405887 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/405887-9ca5c4-df694e-211f2d-e9f0f1?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