Color
#1096ea
#1096eargb(16, 150, 234)hsl(203, 87%, 49%)oklch(0.651 0.161 245.3)Colors that go with #1096ea
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 #1096ea: 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 #1096ea: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #1096ea in 4 real palettes, including Heatwave and NBA's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Blue #0000ff
shippedBlue is paired with #1096ea in 7 real palettes, including Readymag's brand system and Qualcomm's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedCobalt Blue is paired with #1096ea in 6 real palettes, including Blue Mono and Hershey's'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 #1096ea in 4 real palettes, including Figma's brand system and Remix's brand system — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #1096ea in 7 real palettes, including Motorola's brand system and Coca-Cola's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #1096ea in 5 real palettes, including Ford's brand system and Blue Mono, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #1096ea
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #1096ea as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 3.2:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.57:1 | 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 #1096ea as the background.
Brands using this color
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Fonts for this mood
#1096ea 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 #1096ea and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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