Color
#68d5fd
#68d5fdrgb(104, 213, 253)hsl(196, 97%, 70%)oklch(0.824 0.114 224.9)Colors that go with #68d5fd
Charcoal, Crimson and Denim 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 #68d5fd: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #68d5fd in 4 real palettes, including Tiffany & Co.'s brand system and Riot Games's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #68d5fd: 4 real palettes, including UEFA's brand system and Venmo's brand system, as the accent.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #68d5fd: 5 real palettes, including Opensea's brand system and Patreon's brand system, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped4 real palettes, including Telehealth and Blue Mono put Midnight Blue beside #68d5fd, as the text colour against it.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped4 real palettes, including Still Water and Dusty Blue put Slate Gray beside #68d5fd, as the lead colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #68d5fd in 13 real palettes, including Boeing's brand system and Macaron, as the text colour against it.
Coral #ff7f50
complementaryCoral sits directly opposite #68d5fd on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #68d5fd
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #68d5fd as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.68:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 12.52:1 | 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 #68d5fd 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
#68d5fd reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
Point 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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #68d5fd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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