Color
#73aed3
#73aed3rgb(115, 174, 211)hsl(203, 52%, 64%)oklch(0.724 0.082 237)Colors that go with #73aed3
Charcoal, Dark Salmon 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 #73aed3: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
complementaryshippedDark Salmon sits directly opposite #73aed3 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #73aed3 in 4 real palettes, including Coca-Cola's brand system and Open House, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #73aed3 in 6 real palettes, including First Snow and Open House, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Periwinkle #ccccff
shippedPeriwinkle is paired with #73aed3 in 4 real palettes, including Mistral AI's brand system and Calendly's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedPowder Blue is paired with #73aed3 in 5 real palettes, including First Snow and Crypto.com's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Slate Gray #708090
shippedSlate Gray is paired with #73aed3 in 6 real palettes, including Graphite and Midnight Luxe, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #73aed3 in 19 real palettes, including Cursor's brand system and Astro's brand system, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #73aed3
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #73aed3 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.41:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.72:1 | 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 #73aed3 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
#73aed3 reads as cool, modern. 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 #73aed3 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/73aed3-9cb0c4-df4e5d-1f222d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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