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
#425b7b
#425b7b
hex
#425b7brgb
rgb(66, 91, 123)hsl
hsl(214, 30%, 37%)oklch
oklch(0.465 0.061 254.9)Closest name: Deep Indigo (#4c567a)Relative luminance 0.1007
Colors that go with #425b7b
Sea Green, Sienna and 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.
Sea Green #2e8b57
triadicshippedSea Green completes a triad with #425b7b — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Sienna #a0522d
complementaryshippedSienna sits directly opposite #425b7b on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped6 real palettes, including Tesco's brand system and Activision's brand system put Blue beside #425b7b, as the supporting colour.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #425b7b: 4 real palettes, including Dusk and Open House, as the supporting colour.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #425b7b: 4 real palettes, including Fintech Trust and Unilever's brand system, as the lead colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #425b7b: 4 real palettes, including Dusk and Desert Road, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #425b7b in 14 real palettes, including Codecademy's brand system and Walgreens's brand system, as the accent.
White Smoke #f5f5f5
neutralWhite Smoke is the surface for #425b7b: a clean near-white with no warm cast, so the cool hue stays clear instead of drifting muddy.
Real palettes that use #425b7b
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #425b7b as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.97:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 3.01:1 | 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 #425b7b as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
mcpConnect your agent — build around #425b7b
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 #425b7b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/425b7b-9ca9c4-df5a4e-1f1f2d-e9f0f1?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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