Lido
Open in tool →Pool blue, watermelon and sun on white — the poolside summer set; the deep teal text keeps it from going juvenile.
Color
#0ca1bb
#0ca1bb
hex
#0ca1bbrgb
rgb(12, 161, 187)hsl
hsl(189, 88%, 39%)oklch
oklch(0.653 0.114 214.8)Closest name: Blue Ocean (#009dc4)Relative luminance 0.2916
Colors that go with #0ca1bb
Charcoal, Orange Red and Amber 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 #0ca1bb: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Orange Red #ff4500
complementaryshippedOrange Red sits directly opposite #0ca1bb 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 #0ca1bb in 5 real palettes, including Beach Hut and Salesforce's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #0ca1bb in 4 real palettes, including Diner and Riot Games's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDeep Sky Blue is paired with #0ca1bb in 4 real palettes, including Snowflake AI Data Cloud's brand system and Remix's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #0ca1bb in 7 real palettes, including Gopro's brand system and Peacock, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #0ca1bb in 10 real palettes, including Ford's brand system and Confluent's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #0ca1bb in 4 real palettes, including Confluent's brand system and Elastic's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #0ca1bb
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #0ca1bb as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.07:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.83:1 | 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 #0ca1bb as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#0ca1bb reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #0ca1bb
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 #0ca1bb and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/0ca1bb-a2b7be-df4e7e-1f252d-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