Color
#5496ed
#5496edrgb(84, 150, 237)hsl(214, 81%, 63%)oklch(0.669 0.146 256)Colors that go with #5496ed
Charcoal, Medium Sea Green 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 #5496ed: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
triadicshippedMedium Sea Green completes a triad with #5496ed — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #5496ed in 10 real palettes, including Heatwave and Google's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped11 real palettes, including Unity's brand system and Qualcomm's brand system put Blue beside #5496ed, as the supporting colour.
Dark Orange #ff8c00
shippedDark Orange shows up next to #5496ed in 4 real palettes, including Elastic's brand system and Playground, as the lead colour.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #5496ed: 7 real palettes, including Figma's brand system and Telegram's brand system.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #5496ed: 13 real palettes, including Apple's brand system and Gopro's brand system, as the accent.
Gold #ffd700
shippedGold shows up next to #5496ed in 4 real palettes, including Miro's brand system and Star Wars's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #5496ed
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #5496ed as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.02:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.96:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #5496ed 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
#5496ed 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 #5496ed and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/5496ed-9ca9c4-df5a4e-1f1f2d-e9f0f1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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