Color

#1b8ade

#1b8ade
hex#1b8ade
rgbrgb(27, 138, 222)
hslhsl(206, 78%, 49%)
oklchoklch(0.618 0.157 248)
Closest name: Blue Jay (#5588dd)Relative luminance 0.2368

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#de701b

#1bded1 · #1b28de

#de1b8a · #8ade1b

Split-complementary

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#de1b28 · #ded11b

#d11bde · #de701b · #28de1b

Contrast

#1b8ade as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.66:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #1879c3 as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #125a91 as the text (7.25:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #1f1f1f (4.5:1)
Aaon black
5.74:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #3c9de7 as the text (7.17:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #1b8ade 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

#1b8ade reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #1b8ade
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 #1b8ade and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/1b8ade-9caec4-df4e56-1f212d-e9f1f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md