Color

#56adcd

#56adcd
hex#56adcd
rgbrgb(86, 173, 205)
hslhsl(196, 54%, 57%)
oklchoklch(0.706 0.096 224.8)
Closest name: Frozen Wave (#56acca)Relative luminance 0.3627

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#cd7656

#56cdb1 · #5672cd

#cd56ad · #adcd56

Split-complementary

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#cd5672 · #cdb156

#b156cd · #cd7656 · #72cd56

Contrast

#56adcd as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.54:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #2e7d99 as the text (4.66:1)
  • AAA: use #225d72 as the text (7.3:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.05:1)
Aaon black
8.25:1passpasspassPasses 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 #56adcd 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

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

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

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

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