Color

#3b8ade

#3b8ade
hex#3b8ade
rgbrgb(59, 138, 222)
hslhsl(211, 71%, 55%)
oklchoklch(0.625 0.149 252.5)
Closest name: Blue Jay (#5588dd)Relative luminance 0.2438

Colors that go with #3b8ade

Charcoal, Copper and Amber 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#de8f3b

#3bdbde · #3d3bde

#de3b8a · #8ade3b

Split-complementary

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#de3d3b · #dbde3b

#de3bdb · #de8f3b · #3bde3d

Contrast

#3b8ade as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.57:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #2375cd as the text (4.67:1)
  • AAA: use #1b5a9d as the text (7.01:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #212121 (4.51:1)
Aaon black
5.88:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #5599e2 as the text (7.04:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #3b8ade 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

#3b8ade reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #3b8ade
live endpoint

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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #3b8ade and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/3b8ade-9cabc4-df534e-1f202d-e9f1f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md