Color

#56a2bd

#56a2bd
hex#56a2bd
rgbrgb(86, 162, 189)
hslhsl(196, 44%, 54%)
oklchoklch(0.674 0.085 223.5)
Closest name: Frozen Wave (#56acca)Relative luminance 0.3149

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#bd7256

#56bda5 · #566ebd

#bd56a2 · #a2bd56

Split-complementary

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#bd566e · #bda556

#a556bd · #bd7256 · #6ebd56

Contrast

#56a2bd as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.88:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #3b7e97 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #2c5f72 as the text (7.03:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #050505 (7.08:1)
Aaon black
7.3:1passpasspassPasses 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 #56a2bd 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

#56a2bd reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #56a2bd
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 #56a2bd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/56a2bd-9cb5c4-df4e6e-1f232d-e9f1ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md