Color

#23a5cd

#23a5cd
hex#23a5cd
rgbrgb(35, 165, 205)
hslhsl(194, 71%, 47%)
oklchoklch(0.673 0.119 224.7)
Closest name: Blue Ocean (#009dc4)Relative luminance 0.3168

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#cd4a23

#23cda0 · #2350cd

#cd23a5 · #a5cd23

Split-complementary

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#cd2350 · #cda023

#a023cd · #cd4a23 · #50cd23

Contrast

#23a5cd as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.86:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #1b7f9d as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #145f76 as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #050505 (7.12:1)
Aaon black
7.34:1passpasspassPasses 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 #23a5cd 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

#23a5cd reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #23a5cd
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 #23a5cd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/23a5cd-9cb6c4-df4e72-1f242d-e9f1ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md