Color

#73bad9

#73bad9
hex#73bad9
rgbrgb(115, 186, 217)
hslhsl(198, 57%, 65%)
oklchoklch(0.754 0.084 227.7)
Closest name: Crystal Lake (#88b5c4)Relative luminance 0.4377

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#d99173

#73d9c4 · #7387d9

#d973ba · #bad973

Split-complementary

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#d97387 · #d9c473

#c473d9 · #d99173 · #87d973

Contrast

#73bad9 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.15:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #2c7da0 as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #215e78 as the text (7.15:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.67:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.03:1)
Aaon black
9.75:1passpasspassPasses 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 #73bad9 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

#73bad9 reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #73bad9
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 #73bad9 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/73bad9-9cb3c4-df4e69-1f232d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md