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
#0a96fargb(10, 150, 250)hsl(205, 96%, 51%)oklch(0.66 0.18 249.1)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 is the text near-black for #0a96fa: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Orange Red is a split-complement of #0a96fa: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Bronze sits directly opposite #0a96fa on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber is paired with #0a96fa in 9 real palettes, including Heatwave and Salesforce's brand system, as the supporting colour.
10 real palettes, including Unity's brand system and Readymag's brand system put Blue beside #0a96fa, as the supporting colour.
Designers have shipped Cobalt Blue with #0a96fa: 5 real palettes, including Blue Mono and Carrefour's brand system, as the lead colour.
Dark Orange shows up next to #0a96fa in 4 real palettes, including Playground and Elastic's brand system, as the lead colour.
Designers have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #0a96fa: 6 real palettes, including Figma's brand system and Patreon's brand system.
| #0a96fa as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 3.11:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.76:1 | 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 #0a96fa as the background.
#0a96fa reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #0a96fa and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/0a96fa-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