Color
#0ca5d4
#0ca5d4rgb(12, 165, 212)hsl(194, 89%, 44%)oklch(0.674 0.129 227.5)Colors that go with #0ca5d4
Charcoal, Tomato 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 #0ca5d4: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Tomato #ff6347
split-complementshippedTomato is a split-complement of #0ca5d4: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #0ca5d4 in 8 real palettes, including Salesforce's brand system and Blueprint, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including Warp's brand system and Unity's brand system put Blue beside #0ca5d4, as the supporting colour.
Dark Orange #ff8c00
shippedDark Orange shows up next to #0ca5d4 in 4 real palettes, including Elastic's brand system and Learning App, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #0ca5d4: 8 real palettes, including Gopro's brand system and Coca-Cola's brand system, as the lead colour.
Light Sky Blue #87cefa
shippedLight Sky Blue is paired with #0ca5d4 in 4 real palettes, including Calm's brand system and Salesforce's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped9 real palettes, including SoFi's brand system and Confluent's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #0ca5d4, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #0ca5d4
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #0ca5d4 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.86:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.35:1 | 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 #0ca5d4 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
#0ca5d4 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 #0ca5d4 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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