Color

Cerulean

#55aaee
hex#55aaee
rgbrgb(85, 170, 238)
hslhsl(207, 82%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.714 0.129 245.2)
Relative luminance 0.3685

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#ee9953

#53eee6 · #535bee

#ee53a8 · #a8ee53

Split-complementary

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#ee535b · #eee653

#e653ee · #ee9953 · #5bee53

Contrast

Cerulean as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.51:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #1479cc as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #0f5b99 as the text (7.05:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.67:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.15:1)
Aaon black
8.37:1passpasspassPasses 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 Cerulean 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

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

mcpConnect your agent — build around Cerulean
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 #55aaee and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/55aaee-9cadc4-df4e53-1f212d-e9f1f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md