Color

#56aae6

#56aae6
hex#56aae6
rgbrgb(86, 170, 230)
hslhsl(205, 74%, 62%)
oklchoklch(0.711 0.12 242.2)
Closest name: Cerulean (#55aaee)Relative luminance 0.3644

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#e69256

#56e6da · #5662e6

#e656aa · #aae656

Split-complementary

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#e65662 · #e6da56

#da56e6 · #e69256 · #62e656

Contrast

#56aae6 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.53:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #1d7bbf as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #155c8e as the text (7.11:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.08:1)
Aaon black
8.29:1passpasspassPasses 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 #56aae6 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

#56aae6 reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #56aae6
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 #56aae6 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/56aae6-9cafc4-df4e58-1f212d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md