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
#50bbed
#50bbed
hex
#50bbedrgb
rgb(80, 187, 237)hsl
hsl(199, 81%, 62%)oklch
oklch(0.75 0.121 231.8)Closest name: Blue Bikini (#00bbee)Relative luminance 0.4336
Colors that go with #50bbed
Charcoal, Dark Salmon 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 #50bbed: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
complementaryshippedDark Salmon sits directly opposite #50bbed 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 #50bbed 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 Uber's brand system put Blue beside #50bbed, as the supporting colour.
Dark Orange #ff8c00
shippedDark Orange shows up next to #50bbed in 4 real palettes, including Learning App and PayPal's brand system, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #50bbed: 6 real palettes, including Coca-Cola's brand system and UEFA's brand system, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped9 real palettes, including Kraken's brand system and Blue Mono put Midnight Blue beside #50bbed, as the lead colour.
Periwinkle #ccccff
shippedPeriwinkle shows up next to #50bbed in 4 real palettes, including Mistral AI's brand system and Calendly's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #50bbed
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #50bbed as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.17:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.67:1 | 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 #50bbed 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
#50bbed reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #50bbed
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 #50bbed and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/50bbed-9cb3c4-df4e66-1f232d-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