Named color

Denim

#2243b6

hex#2243b6

rgbrgb(34, 67, 182)

hslhsl(227, 69%, 42%)

oklchoklch(0.438 0.186 266.1)

Relative luminance 0.0773

Cool Vivid Technical Modern

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Denim 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.

Tints & shades

Tints — toward white

264bcf 3458da 4e6edf 647fe3 7e95e7 98aaec adbcf0 c7d1f5 dde3f9 f6f8fd

Shades — toward black

1e3ba4 1b3593 193086 152a74 122463 0f1e52 0c1741 091334 060c22 030611

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

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2243b6 b59521

#b59521

Analogous

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2243b6 218bb5 4b21b5

#218bb5 · #4b21b5

Triadic

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2243b6 b52141 41b521

#b52141 · #41b521

Split-complementary

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2243b6 b54b21 8bb521

#b54b21 · #8bb521

Tetradic

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2243b6 b5218b b59521 21b54b

#b5218b · #b59521 · #21b54b

Contrast

Denim as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	8.25:1	pass	pass	pass	Passes AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black	2.55:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #4e6edf as the text (4.62:1) AAA: use #7991e6 as the text (7.01:1) AA: or shift the background to #c2c2c2 (4.63:1) AAA: or shift the background to #ededed (7.04:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with Denim 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

1b1b1b 6e6e6e 1e40af fcfbf7

Ink & Paper

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Two greys and one ink-blue link color: the palette of a well-set book page.

Minimal Editorial Clean

1e40af 111827 fb7185 ffffff

Cobalt Pop

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One deep cobalt and one hot pink on white — a two-accent system for launches and campaign pages that need punch.

Bold Cool Vivid Modern

Fonts for this mood

Denim reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

Technical fonts →Modern fonts →

mcpConnect your agent — build around Denim

live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp

claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp

try this prompt

›analyze #2243b6 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/2243b6-9ca0c4-df7a4e-221f2d-e9eff1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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