Playground
Open in tool →Orange, blue and green — the colors of playground equipment; loud, cheerful, obviously for kids.
Color
#4482ee
#4482ee
hex
#4482eergb
rgb(68, 130, 238)hsl
hsl(218, 83%, 60%)oklch
oklch(0.621 0.175 260.6)Closest name: Blue Öyster Cult (#5577ee)Relative luminance 0.2337
Colors that go with #4482ee
Charcoal, Crimson and Amber lead the list. Each partner is a real named colour with the reason it works — a wheel relationship, a neutral that carries it, or a pairing lifted from a palette or brand system that actually shipped — and every pair opens in the palette tool.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #4482ee: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Crimson #dc143c
triadicshippedCrimson completes a triad with #4482ee — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #4482ee in 11 real palettes, including Heatwave and Walmart's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped13 real palettes, including Readymag's brand system and Qualcomm's brand system put Blue beside #4482ee, as the supporting colour.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #4482ee: 8 real palettes, including Carrefour's brand system and Behance's brand system, as the accent.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #4482ee: 8 real palettes, including Patreon's brand system and Figma's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #4482ee: 15 real palettes, including Coursera's brand system and Guinness's brand system, as the accent.
Firebrick #b22222
shippedDesigners have shipped Firebrick with #4482ee: 4 real palettes, including AT&T's brand system and Bose's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #4482ee
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #4482ee as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.7:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.67:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #4482ee as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#4482ee reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #4482ee
live endpointPoint any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — direct_palette, edit_direction, check_palette, check_contrast — read-only, no key. Every direction it proposes comes with a /colors/d/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back, and the agent edits rather than re-rolls.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #4482ee and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/4482ee-9ca6c4-df644e-201f2d-e9f0f1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md