Color

#3d9bb8

#3d9bb8
hex#3d9bb8
rgbrgb(61, 155, 184)
hslhsl(194, 50%, 48%)
oklchoklch(0.646 0.097 221.8)
Closest name: Blue Ocean (#009dc4)Relative luminance 0.279

Colors that go with #3d9bb8

Charcoal, Amber and 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.

Real palettes that use #3d9bb8

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#b85a3d

#3db897 · #3d5eb8

#b83d9b · #9bb83d

Split-complementary

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#b83d5e · #b8973d

#973db8 · #b85a3d · #5eb83d

Contrast

#3d9bb8 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.19:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #327e95 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #255e6f as the text (7.22:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #292929 (4.56:1)
Aaon black
6.58:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #40a2bf as the text (7.14:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #3d9bb8 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

#3d9bb8 reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #3d9bb8
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 #3d9bb8 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/3d9bb8-9cb6c4-df4e72-1f242d-e9f1ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md