Color

#38addc

#38addc
hex#38addc
rgbrgb(56, 173, 220)
hslhsl(197, 70%, 54%)
oklchoklch(0.703 0.122 229.5)
Closest name: Cousteau (#55a9d6)Relative luminance 0.359

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#dc6638

#38dcb8 · #385bdc

#dc38ad · #addc38

Split-complementary

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#dc385b · #dcb838

#b838dc · #dc6638 · #5bdc38

Contrast

#38addc as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.57:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #1d7ea5 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #155d79 as the text (7.31:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.57:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.18:1)
Aaon black
8.18:1passpasspassPasses 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 #38addc 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

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

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

tool url/palettes/new/38addc-9cb4c4-df4e6b-1f232d-e9f1ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md