Color

#56a3cd

#56a3cd
hex#56a3cd
rgbrgb(86, 163, 205)
hslhsl(201, 54%, 57%)
oklchoklch(0.683 0.098 234.6)
Closest name: Cousteau (#55a9d6)Relative luminance 0.3258

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#cd8056

#56cdbb · #5668cd

#cd56a3 · #a3cd56

Split-complementary

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#cd5668 · #cdbb56

#bb56cd · #cd8056 · #68cd56

Contrast

#56a3cd as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.79:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #317ca5 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #245c7a as the text (7.27:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (7.09:1)
Aaon black
7.52:1passpasspassPasses 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 #56a3cd 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

#56a3cd reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #56a3cd
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 #56a3cd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/56a3cd-9cb1c4-df4e62-1f222d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md