Color
#44a0ca
#44a0cargb(68, 160, 202)hsl(199, 56%, 53%)oklch(0.668 0.106 231.2)Colors that go with #44a0ca
Charcoal, Amber and Blue 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 #44a0ca: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #44a0ca in 8 real palettes, including Salesforce's brand system and Beach Hut, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including Qualcomm's brand system and Unity's brand system put Blue beside #44a0ca, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #44a0ca in 5 real palettes, including Diner and Riot Games's brand system, as the lead colour.
Dark Orange #ff8c00
shippedDark Orange shows up next to #44a0ca in 4 real palettes, including Elastic's brand system and Learning App, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #44a0ca: 9 real palettes, including Gopro's brand system and Coca-Cola's brand system, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped9 real palettes, including SoFi's brand system and Confluent's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #44a0ca, as the accent.
Bronze #cd7f32
complementaryBronze sits directly opposite #44a0ca on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #44a0ca
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #44a0ca as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.95:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.13:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #44a0ca 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
#44a0ca reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
Point 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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #44a0ca and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/44a0ca-9cb3c4-df4e66-1f232d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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