Color
#189dcd
#189dcdrgb(24, 157, 205)hsl(196, 79%, 45%)oklch(0.653 0.125 229.8)Colors that go with #189dcd
Charcoal, Amber and Midnight 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #189dcd: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #189dcd in 4 real palettes, including Beach Hut and Heatwave, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #189dcd in 5 real palettes, including Blue Mono and Plaid's brand system, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #189dcd in 4 real palettes, including Still Water and Notion's brand system, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Chocolate #d2691e
complementaryChocolate sits directly opposite #189dcd on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Orange Red #ff4500
split-complementshippedOrange Red is a split-complement of #189dcd: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #189dcd in 3 real palettes, including Dusk and Peacock, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedPowder Blue is paired with #189dcd in 3 real palettes, including Calendly's brand system and First Snow, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #189dcd
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #189dcd as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.11:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.74:1 | 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 #189dcd 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
#189dcd 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 #189dcd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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