Color

#53b0ca

#53b0ca
hex#53b0ca
rgbrgb(83, 176, 202)
hslhsl(193, 53%, 56%)
oklchoklch(0.711 0.095 218.8)
Closest name: Frozen Wave (#56acca)Relative luminance 0.3715

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#ca6d53

#53caa9 · #5375ca

#ca53b0 · #b0ca53

Split-complementary

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#ca5375 · #caa953

#a953ca · #ca6d53 · #75ca53

Contrast

#53b0ca as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.49:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #2e7e94 as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #236071 as the text (7.04:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.71:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.2:1)
Aaon black
8.43:1passpasspassPasses 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 #53b0ca 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

#53b0ca reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #53b0ca
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 #53b0ca and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/53b0ca-a2b5be-df4e75-1f242d-e9f1ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md