Color

#42ddeb

#42ddeb
hex#42ddeb
rgbrgb(66, 221, 235)
hslhsl(185, 81%, 59%)
oklchoklch(0.825 0.126 204)
Closest name: Hammam Blue (#65dcd6)Relative luminance 0.5887

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#eb5042

#42eba5 · #4288eb

#eb42dd · #ddeb42

Split-complementary

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#eb4288 · #eba542

#a542eb · #eb5042 · #88eb42

Contrast

#42ddeb as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.64:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #0f808a as the text (4.69:1)
  • AAA: use #0b626a as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #545454 (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #383838 (7.13:1)
Aaon black
12.77:1passpasspassPasses 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 #42ddeb 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

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

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

tool url/palettes/new/42ddeb-a2b8be-df4e88-1f262d-e9f1ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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