Color

#42bbd7

#42bbd7
hex#42bbd7
rgbrgb(66, 187, 215)
hslhsl(191, 65%, 55%)
oklchoklch(0.737 0.112 216.4)
Closest name: Blue Martini (#52b4d3)Relative luminance 0.4161

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#d75d42

#42d7a8 · #4271d7

#d742bb · #bbd742

Split-complementary

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#d74271 · #d7a842

#a842d7 · #d75d42 · #71d742

Contrast

#42bbd7 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.25:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #1f7e93 as the text (4.7:1)
  • AAA: use #186172 as the text (7.02:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #404040 (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.15:1)
Aaon black
9.32:1passpasspassPasses 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 #42bbd7 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

#42bbd7 reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #42bbd7
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 #42bbd7 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/42bbd7-a2b6be-df4e7a-1f252d-e9f1ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md