Blue Mono
Open in tool →One blue at four lightnesses — monochromatic in the colour-theory sense; the deep step is the text, the pale step the surface tint.
Named color
Dark Soul
#112255
hex
#112255rgb
rgb(17, 34, 85)hsl
hsl(225, 67%, 20%)oklch
oklch(0.273 0.095 266.2)Relative luminance 0.0192
Dark Soul on this page is the real value, not a screenshot: exact hex, RGB, HSL and OKLCH, ten tints and ten shades, classic harmonies, and WCAG contrast with fixes — plus the curated palettes it appears in and any public brand that adopts it.
Colors that go with Dark Soul
Charcoal, Dark Olive Green and Sea Green 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 Dark Soul: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
complementaryshippedDark Olive Green sits directly opposite Dark Soul on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Sea Green #2e8b57
triadicshippedSea Green completes a triad with Dark Soul — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Slate Blue #6a5acd
analogousshippedSlate Blue is Dark Soul's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Steel Blue #4682b4
analogousshippedSteel Blue is Dark Soul's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with Dark Soul in 7 real palettes, including Southwest Airlines's brand system and Beach Hut, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped15 real palettes, including Monzo's brand system and Sketch's brand system put Blue beside Dark Soul, as the accent.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Graphite Mono and Rain Garden put Blush Pink beside Dark Soul, as the accent.
Real palettes that use Dark Soul
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| Dark Soul as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 15.18:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.38:1 | 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 Dark Soul 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
Fonts for this mood
Dark Soul reads as cool, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around Dark Soul
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 #112255 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/112255-9ca1c4-df754e-221f2d-e9eff1?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