Lido
Open in tool →Pool blue, watermelon and sun on white — the poolside summer set; the deep teal text keeps it from going juvenile.
Color
#01a6cb
#01a6cb
hex
#01a6cbrgb
rgb(1, 166, 203)hsl
hsl(191, 99%, 40%)oklch
oklch(0.672 0.123 221.3)Closest name: Blue Ocean (#009dc4)Relative luminance 0.3159
Colors that go with #01a6cb
Charcoal, Tomato and Amber 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 #01a6cb: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Tomato #ff6347
complementaryshippedTomato sits directly opposite #01a6cb on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #01a6cb in 4 real palettes, including Blueprint and Beach Hut, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #01a6cb in 4 real palettes, including Coca-Cola's brand system and Dusk, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #01a6cb in 6 real palettes, including Ford's brand system and Blue Mono, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Orange Red #ff4500
shippedOrange Red is paired with #01a6cb in 6 real palettes, including Launch Orange and Cursor's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Sky Blue #87ceeb
shippedSky Blue is paired with #01a6cb in 4 real palettes, including Dusty Blue and Coastal, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #01a6cb in 11 real palettes, including Cursor's brand system and Retool's brand system, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #01a6cb
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #01a6cb as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.87:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.32:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #01a6cb 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
#01a6cb reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #01a6cb
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 #01a6cb and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/01a6cb-a2b6be-df4e7a-1f252d-e9f1ef?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