Color

#088bbf

#088bbf
hex#088bbf
rgbrgb(8, 139, 191)
hslhsl(197, 92%, 39%)
oklchoklch(0.601 0.124 234.3)
Closest name: steelblue (#4682b4)Relative luminance 0.2228

Colors that go with #088bbf

Charcoal, Crimson and Royal Blue 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#bf3c08

#08bf97 · #0830bf

#bf088b · #8bbf08

Split-complementary

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#bf0830 · #bf9708

#9708bf · #bf3c08 · #30bf08

Contrast

#088bbf as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.85:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #077dab as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #055d7f as the text (7.3:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #1a1a1a (4.52:1)
Aaon black
5.46:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #09a0dc as the text (7.07:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #088bbf 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

#088bbf reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #088bbf
live endpoint

Point 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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

›analyze #088bbf and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/088bbf-9cb4c4-df4e6b-1f232d-e9f1ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md