Color

#18a3cd

#18a3cd
hex#18a3cd
rgbrgb(24, 163, 205)
hslhsl(194, 79%, 45%)
oklchoklch(0.667 0.123 225.5)
Closest name: Blue Ocean (#009dc4)Relative luminance 0.308

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#cd4218

#18cd9d · #1848cd

#cd18a3 · #a3cd18

Split-complementary

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#cd1848 · #cd9d18

#9d18cd · #cd4218 · #48cd18

Contrast

#18a3cd as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.93:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #137fa0 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #0e5e77 as the text (7.28:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #030303 (7.03:1)
Aaon black
7.16:1passpasspassPasses 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 #18a3cd 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

#18a3cd reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #18a3cd
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

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

analyze #18a3cd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/18a3cd-9cb6c4-df4e72-1f242d-e9f1ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md