Navy Blue hex code
Navy Blue
#000080rgb(0, 0, 128)hsl(240, 100%, 25%)oklch(0.271 0.188 264.1)Navy Blue is a very dark, highly saturated indigo — #000080, rgb(0, 0, 128), hue 240° at 100% saturation. The colours that go with navy blue are Charcoal, Crimson and Steel Blue — each with the reason below, and the real palettes that pair them. As text it passes WCAG AA on white at 16.01:1, so it can be a body colour, not just a fill.
Colors that go with Navy Blue
Charcoal, Crimson 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 Navy Blue: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Crimson #dc143c
triadicshippedCrimson completes a triad with Navy Blue — 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 Navy Blue's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with Navy Blue: 5 real palettes, including Purina Pro Plan's brand system and Glacier, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with Navy Blue: 4 real palettes, including Bank of America's brand system and Panasonic's brand system, as the accent.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with Navy Blue in 4 real palettes, including Discord's brand system and Spectrum's brand system, as the lead colour.
Olive Green #808000
complementaryOlive Green sits directly opposite Navy Blue on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with Navy Blue in 3 real palettes, including Boeing's brand system and Gillette's brand system, as that palette's text colour.
Real palettes that use Navy Blue
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| Navy Blue as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 16.01:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.31:1 | 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 Navy Blue 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
Navy Blue reads as cool, vivid, dark. 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 #000080 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/000080-a19cc4-df994e-251f2d-e9edf1?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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