Arctic
Open in tool →Navy type on white with an ice-blue accent: crisp and corporate without going grey.
Color
#04a2ec
#04a2ec
hex
#04a2ecrgb
rgb(4, 162, 236)hsl
hsl(199, 97%, 47%)oklch
oklch(0.679 0.154 239.7)Closest name: Fresh Blue of Bel Air (#069af3)Relative luminance 0.3192
Colors that go with #04a2ec
Charcoal, Midnight Blue and Bronze 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 #04a2ec: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #04a2ec in 4 real palettes, including Blue Mono and First Snow, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Bronze #cd7f32
complementaryBronze sits directly opposite #04a2ec on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Tomato #ff6347
split-complementshippedTomato is a split-complement of #04a2ec: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #04a2ec in 3 real palettes, including Heatwave and Blueprint, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Hot Pink #ff69b4
triadicshippedHot Pink completes a triad with #04a2ec — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Dark Goldenrod #b8860b
split-complementDark Goldenrod is a split-complement of #04a2ec: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #04a2ec in two real palettes: Notion's brand system and Dusk — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #04a2ec
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #04a2ec as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.84:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.38:1 | 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 #04a2ec 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
#04a2ec reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #04a2ec
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 #04a2ec and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/04a2ec-9cb3c4-df4e66-1f232d-e9f1f0?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