Color

#42ffff

#42ffff
hex#42ffff
rgbrgb(66, 255, 255)
hslhsl(180, 100%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.911 0.144 194.9)
Closest name: aqua (#00ffff)Relative luminance 0.799

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#ff4242

#42ffa1 · #42a1ff

#ff42ff · #ffff42

Split-complementary

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#ff42a1 · #ffa142

#a142ff · #ff4242 · #a1ff42

Contrast

#42ffff as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.24:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #008080 as the text (4.77:1)
  • AAA: use #006161 as the text (7.29:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #666666 (4.64:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #4a4a4a (7.17:1)
Aaon black
16.98:1passpasspassPasses 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 #42ffff 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

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

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

tool url/palettes/new/42ffff-a2bbbe-d45994-1f272d-e9f1ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md