Terminal
Open in tool →Green for success, blue for links, pink for emphasis — the dark-mode developer family, tuned to sit on near-black without glare.
Color
#55a6fc
#55a6fc
hex
#55a6fcrgb
rgb(85, 166, 252)hsl
hsl(211, 97%, 66%)oklch
oklch(0.712 0.149 251.9)Closest name: Cerulean (#55aaee)Relative luminance 0.3623
Colors that go with #55a6fc
Charcoal, Amber and Blue 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 #55a6fc: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #55a6fc in 7 real palettes, including NBA's brand system and Salesforce's brand system, as the lead colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped6 real palettes, including Unity's brand system and Warp's brand system put Blue beside #55a6fc, as the supporting colour.
Dark Orange #ff8c00
shippedDark Orange shows up next to #55a6fc in 5 real palettes, including Learning App and Elastic's brand system, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #55a6fc: 7 real palettes, including Venmo's brand system and Coca-Cola's brand system, as the accent.
Gold #ffd700
shippedGold shows up next to #55a6fc in 4 real palettes, including Miro's brand system and Prime Video's brand system, as the lead colour.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
shippedMedium Sea Green is paired with #55a6fc in 4 real palettes, including Terminal and Unity's brand system, as the lead colour.
Peru #cd853f
complementaryPeru sits directly opposite #55a6fc on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #55a6fc
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #55a6fc as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.55:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.25:1 | 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 #55a6fc as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Blue Mono
Open in tool →One blue at four lightnesses — monochromatic in the colour-theory sense; the deep step is the text, the pale step the surface tint.
Fonts for this mood
#55a6fc reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #55a6fc
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 #55a6fc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/55a6fc-9cabc4-df534e-1f202d-e9f1f1?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