Color
#4aafba
#4aafbargb(74, 175, 186)hsl(186, 45%, 51%)oklch(0.699 0.094 205.1)Colors that go with #4aafba
Charcoal, Terracotta and Cornflower 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 #4aafba: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Terracotta #e2725b
complementaryshippedTerracotta sits directly opposite #4aafba on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
analogousshippedCornflower Blue is #4aafba's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #4aafba: 6 real palettes, including Open House and Coca-Cola's brand system, as the lead colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #4aafba: 6 real palettes, including Patreon's brand system and Figma's brand system, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped9 real palettes, including Confluent's brand system and Ford's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #4aafba, as the lead colour.
Orange #ffa500
shipped4 real palettes, including Graphite and Gopro's brand system put Orange beside #4aafba, as the accent.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #4aafba: 5 real palettes, including First Snow and Crypto.com's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #4aafba
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #4aafba as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.58:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.13:1 | 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 #4aafba 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
#4aafba 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 #4aafba and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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