Blueprint
Open in tool →Cyan and indigo on navy is the developer-tool look; amber is the only warm note, so it always reads as 'attention'.
Color
#4abaf2
#4abaf2
hex
#4abaf2rgb
rgb(74, 186, 242)hsl
hsl(200, 87%, 62%)oklch
oklch(0.748 0.128 234.1)Closest name: Blue Bikini (#00bbee)Relative luminance 0.4298
Colors that go with #4abaf2
Charcoal, Dark Orange 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 #4abaf2: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Orange #ff8c00
complementaryshippedDark Orange sits directly opposite #4abaf2 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #4abaf2 in 4 real palettes, including Blueprint and Salesforce's brand system, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Warp's brand system and Canva's brand system put Blue beside #4abaf2, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #4abaf2: 7 real palettes, including Venmo's brand system and Coca-Cola's brand system, as the accent.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #4abaf2: 4 real palettes, including Figma's brand system and Patreon's brand system, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped9 real palettes, including Kraken's brand system and Blue Mono put Midnight Blue beside #4abaf2, as the lead colour.
Periwinkle #ccccff
shippedPeriwinkle shows up next to #4abaf2 in 4 real palettes, including Mistral AI's brand system and Calendly's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #4abaf2
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #4abaf2 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.19:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.6:1 | 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 #4abaf2 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
#4abaf2 reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #4abaf2
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 #4abaf2 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/4abaf2-9cb2c4-df4e64-1f232d-e9f1f0?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