Color

#53aed5

#53aed5
hex#53aed5
rgbrgb(83, 174, 213)
hslhsl(198, 61%, 58%)
oklchoklch(0.711 0.103 228.8)
Closest name: Cousteau (#55a9d6)Relative luminance 0.3692

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#d57a53

#53d5bb · #536dd5

#d553ae · #aed553

Split-complementary

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#d5536d · #d5bb53

#bb53d5 · #d57a53 · #6dd553

Contrast

#53aed5 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.51:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #287fa4 as the text (4.5:1)
  • AAA: use #1e5f7b as the text (7.05:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.68:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.16:1)
Aaon black
8.38:1passpasspassPasses 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 #53aed5 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

#53aed5 reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #53aed5
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 #53aed5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/53aed5-9cb3c4-df4e69-1f232d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md