Color

lightblue

#add8e6
hex#add8e6
rgbrgb(173, 216, 230)
hslhsl(195, 53%, 79%)
oklchoklch(0.856 0.049 219.7)
Relative luminance 0.6371

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#e6bbad

#ade6d8 · #adbbe6

#e6add8 · #d8e6ad

Split-complementary

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#e6adbb · #e6d8ad

#d8ade6 · #e6bbad · #bbe6ad

Contrast

lightblue as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.53:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #2f7e98 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #235e71 as the text (7.21:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #595959 (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (7.11:1)
Aaon black
13.74:1passpasspassPasses 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 lightblue as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

lightblue reads as cool, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around lightblue
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 #add8e6 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/add8e6-9cb5c4-df4e70-1f242d-e9f1ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md