Color

#1fade5

#1fade5
hex#1fade5
rgbrgb(31, 173, 229)
hslhsl(197, 79%, 51%)
oklchoklch(0.703 0.137 231.7)
Closest name: Cousteau (#55a9d6)Relative luminance 0.3584

Colors that go with #1fade5

Charcoal, Amber and 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 →

#e5571f

#1fe5ba · #1f4ae5

#e51fad · #ade51f

Split-complementary

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#e51f4a · #e5ba1f

#ba1fe5 · #e5571f · #4ae51f

Contrast

#1fade5 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.57:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #147fa9 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #0e5c7b as the text (7.41:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.16:1)
Aaon black
8.17:1passpasspassPasses 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 #1fade5 as the background.

Brands using this color

Fonts for this mood

#1fade5 reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #1fade5
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 #1fade5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/1fade5-9cb4c4-df4e6b-1f232d-e9f1ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md