Blue Mono
Open in tool →One blue at four lightnesses — monochromatic in the colour-theory sense; the deep step is the text, the pale step the surface tint.
Color
#68a6ee
#68a6ee
hex
#68a6eergb
rgb(104, 166, 238)hsl
hsl(212, 80%, 67%)oklch
oklch(0.713 0.124 253.2)Closest name: Cerulean (#55aaee)Relative luminance 0.3639
Colors that go with #68a6ee
Charcoal, Emerald Green and Peru lead the list. Each partner is a real named colour with the reason it works — a wheel relationship, a neutral that carries it, or a pairing lifted from a palette or brand system that actually shipped — and every pair opens in the palette tool.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #68a6ee: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Emerald Green #50c878
triadicshippedEmerald Green completes a triad with #68a6ee — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Peru #cd853f
complementaryshippedPeru sits directly opposite #68a6ee on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #68a6ee in 7 real palettes, including NBA's brand system and Ahrefs's brand system, as the lead colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped6 real palettes, including Canva's brand system and Spotify's brand system put Blue beside #68a6ee, as the accent.
Dark Orange #ff8c00
shippedDark Orange shows up next to #68a6ee in 5 real palettes, including Learning App and Ahrefs's brand system, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #68a6ee: 7 real palettes, including Coca-Cola's brand system and Venmo's brand system, as the accent.
Gold #ffd700
shippedGold shows up next to #68a6ee in 4 real palettes, including Prime Video's brand system and Miro's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #68a6ee
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #68a6ee as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.54:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.28:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #68a6ee as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#68a6ee reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #68a6ee
live endpointPoint any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — direct_palette, edit_direction, check_palette, check_contrast — read-only, no key. Every direction it proposes comes with a /colors/d/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back, and the agent edits rather than re-rolls.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #68a6ee and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/68a6ee-9caac4-df564e-1f202d-e9f1f1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md