Color
#4bc1e2
#4bc1e2rgb(75, 193, 226)hsl(193, 72%, 59%)oklch(0.758 0.114 219.8)Colors that go with #4bc1e2
Charcoal, Dark Salmon and Midnight 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 #4bc1e2: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
complementaryshippedDark Salmon sits directly opposite #4bc1e2 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #4bc1e2 in 6 real palettes, including Telehealth and First Snow, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Periwinkle #ccccff
shippedPeriwinkle is paired with #4bc1e2 in 4 real palettes, including Mistral AI's brand system and Calendly's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedPowder Blue is paired with #4bc1e2 in 4 real palettes, including Calendly's brand system and First Snow, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Slate Gray #708090
shippedSlate Gray is paired with #4bc1e2 in 4 real palettes, including Still Water and Midnight Luxe, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Steel Blue #4682b4
shippedSteel Blue is paired with #4bc1e2 in 4 real palettes, including Deep Water and Astro's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #4bc1e2 in 12 real palettes, including Cursor's brand system and Astro's brand system, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #4bc1e2
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #4bc1e2 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.09:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10.03:1 | 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 #4bc1e2 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
#4bc1e2 reads as cool, vivid, technical. 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 #4bc1e2 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/4bc1e2-a2b5be-df4e75-1f242d-e9f1ef?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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