Circuit
Open in tool →Violet plus cyan is the current AI-product signal — pair it with pure black type to keep it from going candy.
Color
#04b5cd
#04b5cd
hex
#04b5cdrgb
rgb(4, 181, 205)hsl
hsl(187, 96%, 41%)oklch
oklch(0.709 0.123 211.4)Closest name: Aquarius (#2db0ce)Relative luminance 0.3748
Colors that go with #04b5cd
Charcoal, Midnight Blue and Taupe 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 #04b5cd: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #04b5cd in 4 real palettes, including First Snow and Open House, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #04b5cd in 4 real palettes, including Crayon Box and Resort, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Salmon #fa8072
complementarySalmon sits directly opposite #04b5cd on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Hot Pink #ff69b4
split-complementshippedHot Pink is a split-complement of #04b5cd: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Peru #cd853f
split-complementshippedPeru is a split-complement of #04b5cd: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Mustard Yellow #ffdb58
shippedMustard Yellow is paired with #04b5cd in 3 real palettes, including Lido and Crayon Box, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Terracotta #e2725b
shippedTerracotta is paired with #04b5cd in 3 real palettes, including Alpine and Resort, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #04b5cd
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #04b5cd as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.47:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.5:1 | 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 #04b5cd 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
Deep Water
Open in tool →Cyan and mid-blue on abyss navy with a foam highlight — the ocean at depth; the darker the surface, the brighter the water.
Lagoon
Open in tool →Turquoise and teal with a sand-yellow on white — shallow tropical water; the deep teal text is the reef.
Fonts for this mood
#04b5cd reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #04b5cd
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 #04b5cd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/04b5cd-a2b8be-df4e83-1f262d-e9f1ee?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