Color

#56a2ae

#56a2ae
hex#56a2ae
rgbrgb(86, 162, 174)
hslhsl(188, 35%, 51%)
oklchoklch(0.668 0.077 208.8)
Closest name: Atlas Cedar (#5ca0a7)Relative luminance 0.3088

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#ae6256

#56ae8e · #5676ae

#ae56a2 · #a2ae56

Split-complementary

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#ae5676 · #ae8e56

#8e56ae · #ae6256 · #76ae56

Contrast

#56a2ae as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.93:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #417d86 as the text (4.66:1)
  • AAA: use #305d64 as the text (7.3:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #030303 (7.05:1)
Aaon black
7.18:1passpasspassPasses 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 #56a2ae 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

#56a2ae reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #56a2ae
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 #56a2ae and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/56a2ae-a2b7be-df4e81-1f252d-e9f1ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md