Color

#38abe0

#38abe0
hex#38abe0
rgbrgb(56, 171, 224)
hslhsl(199, 73%, 55%)
oklchoklch(0.701 0.126 233)
Closest name: Cousteau (#55a9d6)Relative luminance 0.3535

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#e06e38

#38e0c1 · #3857e0

#e038ab · #abe038

Split-complementary

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#e03857 · #e0c138

#c138e0 · #e06e38 · #57e038

Contrast

#38abe0 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.6:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #1b7eac as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #145e80 as the text (7.14:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.08:1)
Aaon black
8.07:1passpasspassPasses 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 #38abe0 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

#38abe0 reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #38abe0
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 #38abe0 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/38abe0-9cb3c4-df4e66-1f232d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md