Color

#238dbe

#238dbe
hex#238dbe
rgbrgb(35, 141, 190)
hslhsl(199, 69%, 44%)
oklchoklch(0.608 0.117 234.3)
Closest name: steelblue (#4682b4)Relative luminance 0.2312

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#be5423

#23bea1 · #233fbe

#be238d · #8dbe23

Split-complementary

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#be233f · #bea123

#a123be · #be5423 · #3fbe23

Contrast

#238dbe as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.73:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #1f7da8 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #175d7d as the text (7.25:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (4.56:1)
Aaon black
5.62:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #28a0d7 as the text (7.1:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #238dbe 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

#238dbe reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #238dbe
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 #238dbe and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/238dbe-9cb3c4-df4e66-1f232d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md