Color

#42a1ff

#42a1ff
hex#42a1ff
rgbrgb(66, 161, 255)
hslhsl(210, 100%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.697 0.164 251.2)
Closest name: Fresh Blue of Bel Air (#069af3)Relative luminance 0.3387

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#ffa142

#42ffff · #4242ff

#ff42a1 · #a1ff42

Split-complementary

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#ff4242 · #ffff42

#ff42ff · #ffa142 · #42ff42

Contrast

#42a1ff as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.7:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #0073e6 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #0057ad as the text (7.08:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.68:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (7.1:1)
Aaon black
7.77:1passpasspassPasses 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 #42a1ff 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

#42a1ff reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #42a1ff
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #42a1ff and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/42a1ff-9cabc4-df514e-1f202d-e9f1f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md