Color
#3ab0cb
#3ab0cbrgb(58, 176, 203)hsl(191, 58%, 51%)oklch(0.704 0.109 216.4)Colors that go with #3ab0cb
Charcoal, Denim and Dodger 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #3ab0cb: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #3ab0cb: 8 real palettes, including Coca-Cola's brand system and Venmo's brand system, as the accent.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #3ab0cb: 4 real palettes, including Figma's brand system and Patreon's brand system, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped8 real palettes, including Confluent's brand system and SoFi's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #3ab0cb, as the lead colour.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #3ab0cb: 4 real palettes, including First Snow and Calendly's brand system, as the accent.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #3ab0cb in 9 real palettes, including Confluent's brand system and Elastic's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Sky Blue #87ceeb
shippedSky Blue is paired with #3ab0cb in 4 real palettes, including Max's brand system and Dusty Blue, as the lead colour.
Coral #ff7f50
complementaryCoral sits directly opposite #3ab0cb on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #3ab0cb
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #3ab0cb as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.54:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.25:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #3ab0cb 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
#3ab0cb reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
Point 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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #3ab0cb and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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