Color

#12afed

#12afed
hex#12afed
rgbrgb(18, 175, 237)
hslhsl(197, 86%, 50%)
oklchoklch(0.71 0.145 233.5)
Closest name: Cerulean (#55aaee)Relative luminance 0.369

Colors that go with #12afed

Charcoal, Dark Orange 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.

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#ed5012

#12edbe · #1241ed

#ed12af · #afed12

Split-complementary

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#ed1241 · #edbe12

#be12ed · #ed5012 · #41ed12

Contrast

#12afed as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.51:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #0d7eab as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #0a5f80 as the text (7.09:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.68:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.15:1)
Aaon black
8.38:1passpasspassPasses 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 #12afed as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#12afed reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #12afed
live endpoint

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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #12afed and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/12afed-9cb4c4-df4e6b-1f232d-e9f1ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md