Playground
Open in tool →Orange, blue and green — the colors of playground equipment; loud, cheerful, obviously for kids.
Color
#487ffe
#487ffe
hex
#487ffergb
rgb(72, 127, 254)hsl
hsl(222, 99%, 64%)oklch
oklch(0.627 0.198 263.9)Closest name: Blue Öyster Cult (#5577ee)Relative luminance 0.2371
Colors that go with #487ffe
Red, 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.
Red #ff0000
triadicshippedRed completes a triad with #487ffe — 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 #487ffe in 8 real palettes, including Heatwave and Mastodon hosted on mastodon.social's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped12 real palettes, including Cargo's brand system and Samsung's brand system put Blue beside #487ffe, as the accent.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #487ffe: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #487ffe: 7 real palettes, including Carrefour's brand system and Behance's brand system, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #487ffe in 8 real palettes, including Behance's brand system and WWE's brand system, as the accent.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #487ffe: 7 real palettes, including Patreon's brand system and Elastic's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #487ffe: 13 real palettes, including Coursera's brand system and Guinness's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #487ffe
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #487ffe as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.66:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.74:1 | 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 #487ffe as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#487ffe reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #487ffe
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 #487ffe and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/487ffe-9ca3c4-df6e4e-211f2d-e9eff1?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