Color

#009cb8

#009cb8
hex#009cb8
rgbrgb(0, 156, 184)
hslhsl(189, 100%, 36%)
oklchoklch(0.639 0.114 216.5)
Closest name: Blue Ocean (#009dc4)Relative luminance 0.2724

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#b81c00

#00b877 · #0040b8

#b8009c · #9cb800

Split-complementary

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#b80040 · #b87700

#7700b8 · #b81c00 · #40b800

Contrast

#009cb8 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.26:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #008299 as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #005f70 as the text (7.31:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #262626 (4.65:1)
Aaon black
6.45:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #00a5c2 as the text (7.16:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #009cb8 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

#009cb8 reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #009cb8
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 #009cb8 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/009cb8-a2b7be-df4e7e-1f252d-e9f1ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md