Color
#40a6ba
#40a6bargb(64, 166, 186)hsl(190, 49%, 49%)oklch(0.674 0.097 213)Colors that go with #40a6ba
Charcoal, Tomato 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #40a6ba: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Tomato #ff6347
complementaryshippedTomato sits directly opposite #40a6ba on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #40a6ba in 4 real palettes, including Beach Hut and Salesforce's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #40a6ba: 4 real palettes, including Dusk and Clean Beauty, as the accent.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
analogousshippedCornflower Blue is #40a6ba's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #40a6ba: 6 real palettes, including Gopro's brand system and Coca-Cola's brand system, as the lead colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #40a6ba: 5 real palettes, including Studio Grey and Figma's brand system, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped10 real palettes, including Ford's brand system and Confluent's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #40a6ba, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #40a6ba
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #40a6ba as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.84:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.38:1 | 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 #40a6ba 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
#40a6ba 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 #40a6ba and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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