Color
#40bdce
#40bdcergb(64, 189, 206)hsl(187, 59%, 53%)oklch(0.738 0.109 208.1)Colors that go with #40bdce
Charcoal, Dark Orange and Denim 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 #40bdce: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Orange #ff8c00
split-complementshippedDark Orange is a split-complement of #40bdce: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #40bdce: 5 real palettes, including Coca-Cola's brand system and UEFA's brand system, as the accent.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #40bdce: 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 Ford's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #40bdce, as the lead colour.
Mustard Yellow #ffdb58
shipped4 real palettes, including Crayon Box and Lido put Mustard Yellow beside #40bdce, as the accent.
Orange #ffa500
shipped4 real palettes, including Mistral AI's brand system and Graphite put Orange beside #40bdce, as the supporting colour.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #40bdce: 4 real palettes, including First Snow and Calendly's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #40bdce
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #40bdce as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.24:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.39:1 | 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 #40bdce 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
#40bdce 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 #40bdce and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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