Color
#249da8
#249da8rgb(36, 157, 168)hsl(185, 65%, 40%)oklch(0.638 0.101 204.4)Colors that go with #249da8
Charcoal, Red and Copper 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #249da8: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Red #ff0000
complementaryshippedRed sits directly opposite #249da8 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #249da8: 5 real palettes, including Dusk and Clean Beauty, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #249da8: 7 real palettes, including Peacock and Gopro's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped8 real palettes, including Ford's brand system and Tide Pool put Midnight Blue beside #249da8, as the accent.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #249da8 in 5 real palettes, including Confluent's brand system and Elastic's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #249da8 in 11 real palettes, including Still Water and Rain Garden, as that palette's text colour.
Chocolate #d2691e
split-complementshippedChocolate is a split-complement of #249da8: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #249da8
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #249da8 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.25:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.46:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #249da8 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
#249da8 reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #249da8 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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