Color
#4fa8d8
#4fa8d8rgb(79, 168, 216)hsl(201, 64%, 58%)oklch(0.697 0.11 235)Colors that go with #4fa8d8
Charcoal, Peru 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 #4fa8d8: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Peru #cd853f
complementaryshippedPeru sits directly opposite #4fa8d8 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 #4fa8d8 in 5 real palettes, including Blue Mono and First Snow, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Orange Red #ff4500
shippedOrange Red is paired with #4fa8d8 in 4 real palettes, including Cursor's brand system and Launch Orange, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #4fa8d8 in 10 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.
Terracotta #e2725b
split-complementshippedTerracotta is a split-complement of #4fa8d8: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #4fa8d8 in 3 real palettes, including Blueprint and Heatwave, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Blue #0000ff
shippedBlue is paired with #4fa8d8 in 3 real palettes, including Warp's brand system and Spotify's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #4fa8d8
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #4fa8d8 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.65:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.93:1 | 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 #4fa8d8 as the background.
Brands using this color
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Fonts for this mood
#4fa8d8 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 #4fa8d8 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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