Lido
Open in tool →Pool blue, watermelon and sun on white — the poolside summer set; the deep teal text keeps it from going juvenile.
Color
#2ba2ca
#2ba2ca
hex
#2ba2cargb
rgb(43, 162, 202)hsl
hsl(195, 65%, 48%)oklch
oklch(0.666 0.116 225.9)Closest name: Blue Ocean (#009dc4)Relative luminance 0.3062
Colors that go with #2ba2ca
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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #2ba2ca: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #2ba2ca in 7 real palettes, including Salesforce's brand system and Beach Hut, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Unity's brand system and Warp's brand system put Blue beside #2ba2ca, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #2ba2ca: 6 real palettes, including Gopro's brand system and Coca-Cola's brand system, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped8 real palettes, including Ford's brand system and Confluent's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #2ba2ca, as the accent.
Orange Red #ff4500
shippedOrange Red is paired with #2ba2ca in 6 real palettes, including Launch Orange and Cursor's brand system, as the lead colour.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #2ba2ca: 4 real palettes, including Calendly's brand system and First Snow, as the accent.
Chocolate #d2691e
complementaryChocolate sits directly opposite #2ba2ca on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #2ba2ca
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #2ba2ca as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.95:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.12:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #2ba2ca as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#2ba2ca reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #2ba2ca
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #2ba2ca and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/2ba2ca-9cb5c4-df4e70-1f242d-e9f1ef?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md