Color

#00a8e6

#00a8e6
hex#00a8e6
rgbrgb(0, 168, 230)
hslhsl(196, 100%, 45%)
oklchoklch(0.689 0.144 234)
Closest name: Cerulean (#55aaee)Relative luminance 0.3372

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#e63d00

#00e6b0 · #0036e6

#e600a8 · #a8e600

Split-complementary

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#e60036 · #e6b000

#b000e6 · #e63d00 · #36e600

Contrast

#00a8e6 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.71:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #007fad as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #005e80 as the text (7.21:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.66:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (7.07:1)
Aaon black
7.74:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #00a8e6 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

#00a8e6 reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #00a8e6
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 #00a8e6 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/00a8e6-9cb5c4-df4e6e-1f232d-e9f1ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md