Color

#48add5

#48add5
hex#48add5
rgbrgb(72, 173, 213)
hslhsl(197, 63%, 56%)
oklchoklch(0.705 0.109 227.6)
Closest name: Cousteau (#55a9d6)Relative luminance 0.3607

Colors that go with #48add5

Charcoal, Amber and Dark Orange 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#d57048

#48d5b7 · #4867d5

#d548ad · #add548

Split-complementary

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#d54867 · #d5b748

#b748d5 · #d57048 · #67d548

Contrast

#48add5 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.56:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #257fa2 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #1b5e79 as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.01:1)
Aaon black
8.21:1passpasspassPasses 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 #48add5 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

#48add5 reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #48add5
live endpoint

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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #48add5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/48add5-9cb4c4-df4e6b-1f232d-e9f1ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md