Color

#38bdfa

#38bdfa
hex#38bdfa
rgbrgb(56, 189, 250)
hslhsl(199, 95%, 60%)
oklchoklch(0.754 0.141 233.6)
Closest name: deepskyblue (#00bfff)Relative luminance 0.4414

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#fa7538

#38fad6 · #385cfa

#fa38bd · #bdfa38

Split-complementary

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#fa385c · #fad638

#d638fa · #fa7538 · #5cfa38

Contrast

#38bdfa as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.14:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #057cb3 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #035d86 as the text (7.21:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.7:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.08:1)
Aaon black
9.83:1passpasspassPasses 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 #38bdfa as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

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

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

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

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Machine-readable: color.md