Color

#2d8bb4

#2d8bb4
hex#2d8bb4
rgbrgb(45, 139, 180)
hslhsl(198, 60%, 44%)
oklchoklch(0.601 0.105 231.4)
Closest name: steelblue (#4682b4)Relative luminance 0.2232

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#b4552d

#2db499 · #2d48b4

#b42d8b · #8bb42d

Split-complementary

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#b42d48 · #b4992d

#992db4 · #b4552d · #48b42d

Contrast

#2d8bb4 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.84:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #297ea3 as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #1f5f7a as the text (7.06:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #1a1a1a (4.53:1)
Aaon black
5.46:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #37a0cd as the text (7.07:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #2d8bb4 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

#2d8bb4 reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #2d8bb4
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 #2d8bb4 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/2d8bb4-9cb3c4-df4e69-1f232d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md