Color
#196dae
#196daergb(25, 109, 174)hsl(206, 75%, 39%)oklch(0.521 0.127 247.7)Colors that go with #196dae
Charcoal, Medium Sea Green 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 #196dae: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
shippedMedium Sea Green is paired with #196dae in 4 real palettes, including Fintech Trust and Console Light, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #196dae in 5 real palettes, including Fintech Trust and Open House, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #196dae in 4 real palettes, including Dusk and Notion's brand system, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Sienna #a0522d
complementarySienna sits directly opposite #196dae on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Rust #b7410e
split-complementshippedRust is a split-complement of #196dae: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedCadet Blue is paired with #196dae in 3 real palettes, including Open House and Alpine, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Crimson #dc143c
triadicshippedCrimson completes a triad with #196dae — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Real palettes that use #196dae
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #196dae as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.47:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.84:1 | fail | pass | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #196dae as the background.
Brands using this color
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Fonts for this mood
#196dae 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 #196dae and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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