Color

#048cbe

#048cbe
hex#048cbe
rgbrgb(4, 140, 190)
hslhsl(196, 96%, 38%)
oklchoklch(0.602 0.123 232.9)
Closest name: steelblue (#4682b4)Relative luminance 0.225

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#be3504

#04be93 · #042fbe

#be048c · #8cbe04

Split-complementary

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#be042f · #be9304

#9304be · #be3504 · #2fbe04

Contrast

#048cbe as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.82:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #037eaa as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #036082 as the text (7:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #1a1a1a (4.56:1)
Aaon black
5.5:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #04a2dc as the text (7.21:1)

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

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

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

tool url/palettes/new/048cbe-9cb5c4-df4e6e-1f232d-e9f1ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md