Color

#52a0bc

#52a0bc
hex#52a0bc
rgbrgb(82, 160, 188)
hslhsl(196, 44%, 53%)
oklchoklch(0.667 0.087 224)
Closest name: Canadian Tuxedo (#579aca)Relative luminance 0.3057

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

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#bc6f52

#52bca3 · #526bbc

#bc52a0 · #a0bc52

Split-complementary

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#bc526b · #bca352

#a352bc · #bc6f52 · #6bbc52

Contrast

#52a0bc as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.95:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #3b7e97 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #2c5f72 as the text (7.03:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #000000 (7.11:1)
Aaon black
7.11:1passpasspassPasses 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 #52a0bc 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

#52a0bc reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #52a0bc
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #52a0bc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/52a0bc-9cb5c4-df4e6e-1f232d-e9f1ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md