Heatwave
Open in tool →Blaze orange and hot yellow with one cold blue — the high-noon palette; use the blue where the eye needs to rest.
Color
#338dfa
#338dfa
hex
#338dfargb
rgb(51, 141, 250)hsl
hsl(213, 95%, 59%)oklch
oklch(0.647 0.183 255.6)Closest name: dodgerblue (#1e90ff)Relative luminance 0.2666
Colors that go with #338dfa
Dark Goldenrod, Charcoal and Deep Sky 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.
Dark Goldenrod #b8860b
complementaryDark Goldenrod sits directly opposite #338dfa on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #338dfa: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDeep Sky Blue is paired with #338dfa in 3 real palettes, including Blueprint and Remix's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
shippedMedium Sea Green is paired with #338dfa in 3 real palettes, including Terminal and Console Light, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #338dfa in 3 real palettes, including Blue Mono and Telehealth, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Orange Red #ff4500
shippedOrange Red is paired with #338dfa in 3 real palettes, including Heatwave and PlanetScale's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Chocolate #d2691e
split-complementChocolate is a split-complement of #338dfa: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #338dfa in two real palettes: Heatwave and Blueprint, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #338dfa
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #338dfa as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.32:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.33:1 | 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 #338dfa as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#338dfa reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #338dfa
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 #338dfa and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/338dfa-9ca9c4-df584e-1f202d-e9f0f1?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