Deep Water
Open in tool →Cyan and mid-blue on abyss navy with a foam highlight — the ocean at depth; the darker the surface, the brighter the water.
Color
#3cb4dd
#3cb4dd
hex
#3cb4ddrgb
rgb(60, 180, 221)hsl
hsl(195, 70%, 55%)oklch
oklch(0.721 0.119 225.2)Closest name: Blue Martini (#52b4d3)Relative luminance 0.3882
Colors that go with #3cb4dd
Charcoal, Midnight Blue and Taupe 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 #3cb4dd: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #3cb4dd in 4 real palettes, including Blue Mono and First Snow, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #3cb4dd in 8 real palettes, including Cursor's brand system and Astro's brand system, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Coral #ff7f50
complementaryCoral sits directly opposite #3cb4dd on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Goldenrod #daa520
split-complementshippedGoldenrod is a split-complement of #3cb4dd: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Terracotta #e2725b
shippedTerracotta is paired with #3cb4dd in 3 real palettes, including Alpine and Harbour, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Hot Pink #ff69b4
triadicshippedHot Pink completes a triad with #3cb4dd — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Light Coral #f08080
split-complementLight Coral is a split-complement of #3cb4dd: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #3cb4dd
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #3cb4dd as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.4:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.76:1 | 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 #3cb4dd as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#3cb4dd reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #3cb4dd
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #3cb4dd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/3cb4dd-9cb5c4-df4e70-1f242d-e9f1ef?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md