Color
#189cb4
#189cb4rgb(24, 156, 180)hsl(189, 76%, 40%)oklch(0.639 0.108 214.4)Colors that go with #189cb4
Charcoal, Orange Red and Cobalt Blue 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.
Orange Red #ff4500
complementaryshippedOrange Red sits directly opposite #189cb4 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedCobalt Blue is paired with #189cb4 in 4 real palettes, including Hershey's's brand system and Fintech Trust, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #189cb4 in 4 real palettes, including Dusk and Notion's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #189cb4 in 8 real palettes, including Peacock and Dusk, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #189cb4 in 8 real palettes, including Ford's brand system and Tide Pool, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #189cb4 in 11 real palettes, including Still Water and Rain Garden, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Teal #008080
shippedTeal is paired with #189cb4 in 4 real palettes, including N26's brand system and Perplexity's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #189cb4
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #189cb4 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.25:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.45:1 | 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 #189cb4 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
#189cb4 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 #189cb4 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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