Color
#3bbee3
#3bbee3rgb(59, 190, 227)hsl(193, 75%, 56%)oklch(0.747 0.121 221.1)Colors that go with #3bbee3
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 #3bbee3: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #3bbee3: 6 real palettes, including Venmo's brand system and Coca-Cola's brand system, as the accent.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #3bbee3: 4 real palettes, including Patreon's brand system and Figma's brand system, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped8 real palettes, including Confluent's brand system and Kraken's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #3bbee3, as the lead colour.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #3bbee3: 4 real palettes, including Calendly's brand system and First Snow, as the accent.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #3bbee3 in 9 real palettes, including Confluent's brand system and Elastic's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #3bbee3 in 9 real palettes, including Cursor's brand system and Astro's brand system, as the text colour against it.
Coral #ff7f50
complementaryCoral sits directly opposite #3bbee3 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 #3bbee3
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #3bbee3 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.17:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.66:1 | 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 #3bbee3 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
#3bbee3 reads as cool, vivid, technical. 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 #3bbee3 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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