Color

#38a2bc

#38a2bc
hex#38a2bc
rgbrgb(56, 162, 188)
hslhsl(192, 54%, 48%)
oklchoklch(0.663 0.101 217.5)
Closest name: Blue Ocean (#009dc4)Relative luminance 0.3031

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#bc5338

#38bc95 · #3860bc

#bc38a2 · #a2bc38

Split-complementary

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#bc3860 · #bc9538

#9538bc · #bc5338 · #60bc38

Contrast

#38a2bc as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.97:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #2d8095 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #215f6e as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (4.57:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #000000 (7.06:1)
Aaon black
7.06:1passpasspassPasses 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 #38a2bc 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

#38a2bc reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #38a2bc
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 #38a2bc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/38a2bc-a2b5be-df4e77-1f242d-e9f1ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md