Color

#42aafa

#42aafa
hex#42aafa
rgbrgb(66, 170, 250)
hslhsl(206, 95%, 62%)
oklchoklch(0.714 0.15 245.6)
Closest name: Cerulean (#55aaee)Relative luminance 0.3681

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#fa9242

#42faee · #424efa

#fa42aa · #aafa42

Split-complementary

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#fa424e · #faee42

#ee42fa · #fa9242 · #4efa42

Contrast

#42aafa as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.51:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #0579d1 as the text (4.5:1)
  • AAA: use #04599a as the text (7.24:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.67:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.14:1)
Aaon black
8.36:1passpasspassPasses 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 #42aafa as the background.

Brands using this color

Fonts for this mood

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

mcpConnect your agent — build around #42aafa
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 #42aafa and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/42aafa-9caec4-df4e56-1f212d-e9f1f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md