Heatwave
Open in tool →Blaze orange and hot yellow with one cold blue — the high-noon palette; use the blue where the eye needs to rest.
Color
#0996fb
#0996fb
hex
#0996fbrgb
rgb(9, 150, 251)hsl
hsl(205, 97%, 51%)oklch
oklch(0.66 0.181 249.3)Closest name: Fresh Blue of Bel Air (#069af3)Relative luminance 0.2884
Colors that go with #0996fb
Charcoal, Orange Red 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 #0996fb: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Orange Red #ff4500
split-complementshippedOrange Red is a split-complement of #0996fb: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Bronze #cd7f32
complementaryshippedBronze sits directly opposite #0996fb on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #0996fb in 9 real palettes, including Heatwave and Google's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped10 real palettes, including Unity's brand system and Readymag's brand system put Blue beside #0996fb, as the supporting colour.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #0996fb: 5 real palettes, including Blue Mono and Carrefour's brand system, as the lead colour.
Dark Orange #ff8c00
shippedDark Orange shows up next to #0996fb in 4 real palettes, including Playground and Elastic's brand system, as the lead colour.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #0996fb: 8 real palettes, including Figma's brand system and Venmo's brand system.
Real palettes that use #0996fb
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #0996fb as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.1:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.77:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #0996fb as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#0996fb reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #0996fb
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 #0996fb and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/0996fb-9cafc4-df4e58-1f212d-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