Color

#1b8bbb

#1b8bbb
hex#1b8bbb
rgbrgb(27, 139, 187)
hslhsl(198, 75%, 42%)
oklchoklch(0.601 0.118 233.4)
Closest name: steelblue (#4682b4)Relative luminance 0.2229

Colors that go with #1b8bbb

Charcoal, Crimson and Royal 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#bb4b1b

#1bbb9b · #1b3bbb

#bb1b8b · #8bbb1b

Split-complementary

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#bb1b3b · #bb9b1b

#9b1bbb · #bb4b1b · #3bbb1b

Contrast

#1b8bbb as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.85:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #187eaa as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #125d7d as the text (7.27:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #1a1a1a (4.52:1)
Aaon black
5.46:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #1fa2db as the text (7.25:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #1b8bbb 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

#1b8bbb reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #1b8bbb
live endpoint

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.

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

analyze #1b8bbb and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/1b8bbb-9cb3c4-df4e69-1f232d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md