Color

#048ca4

#048ca4
hex#048ca4
rgbrgb(4, 140, 164)
hslhsl(189, 95%, 33%)
oklchoklch(0.59 0.104 215.6)
Closest name: Ahoy! Blue (#0082a1)Relative luminance 0.2146

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a41c04

#04a46c · #043ca4

#a4048c · #8ca404

Split-complementary

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#a4043c · #a46c04

#6c04a4 · #a41c04 · #3ca404

Contrast

#048ca4 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.97:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #047f95 as the text (4.69:1)
  • AAA: use #036272 as the text (7.01:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #171717 (4.52:1)
Aaon black
5.29:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #05a6c2 as the text (7.24:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #048ca4 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

#048ca4 reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #048ca4
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 #048ca4 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/048ca4-a2b7be-df4e7e-1f252d-e9f1ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md