Harbour
Open in tool →Steel blue and haze with a buoy orange on a pale grey — the maritime palette every port town uses for a reason.
Color
#94bbd6
#94bbd6
hex
#94bbd6rgb
rgb(148, 187, 214)hsl
hsl(205, 45%, 71%)oklch
oklch(0.773 0.057 238.7)Closest name: Blues White Shoes (#99badd)Relative luminance 0.4669
Colors that go with #94bbd6
Charcoal, Dark Salmon and Amber 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 #94bbd6: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
complementaryshippedDark Salmon sits directly opposite #94bbd6 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 #94bbd6 in 4 real palettes, including Blueprint and Salesforce's brand system, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Uber's brand system and Canva's brand system put Blue beside #94bbd6, as the accent.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #94bbd6: 4 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Dusk, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #94bbd6 in 5 real palettes, including JBL's brand system and Tiffany & Co.'s brand system, as the supporting colour.
Dark Orange #ff8c00
shippedDark Orange shows up next to #94bbd6 in 4 real palettes, including PayPal's brand system and Learning App, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #94bbd6: 5 real palettes, including Open House and Coca-Cola's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #94bbd6
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #94bbd6 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.03:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10.34:1 | 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 #94bbd6 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#94bbd6 reads as cool, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #94bbd6
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 #94bbd6 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/94bbd6-9cafc4-df4e58-1f212d-e9f1f0?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