Color
#73bfd9
#73bfd9rgb(115, 191, 217)hsl(195, 57%, 65%)oklch(0.765 0.084 222)Colors that go with #73bfd9
Charcoal, Dark Salmon and Cadet Blue 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 #73bfd9: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
complementaryshippedDark Salmon sits directly opposite #73bfd9 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #73bfd9: 4 real palettes, including Coastal and Clean Beauty, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #73bfd9: 4 real palettes, including Coca-Cola's brand system and UEFA's brand system, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped10 real palettes, including First Snow and Telehealth put Midnight Blue beside #73bfd9, as the text colour against it.
Periwinkle #ccccff
shippedPeriwinkle shows up next to #73bfd9 in 4 real palettes, including Mistral AI's brand system and Calendly's brand system, as the accent.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #73bfd9: 6 real palettes, including First Snow and Crypto.com's brand system, as the accent.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #73bfd9 in 8 real palettes, including 1password's brand system and Telehealth, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #73bfd9
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #73bfd9 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.06:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10.18:1 | 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 #73bfd9 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
#73bfd9 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 #73bfd9 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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