Blue Mono
Open in tool →One blue at four lightnesses — monochromatic in the colour-theory sense; the deep step is the text, the pale step the surface tint.
Color
#bad5fc
#bad5fc
hex
#bad5fcrgb
rgb(186, 213, 252)hsl
hsl(215, 92%, 86%)oklch
oklch(0.866 0.062 257.5)Closest name: Broad Daylight (#bbddff)Relative luminance 0.6506
Colors that go with #bad5fc
Charcoal, Goldenrod and Brown 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 #bad5fc: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Goldenrod #daa520
complementaryshippedGoldenrod sits directly opposite #bad5fc on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Brown #a52a2a
shippedBrown is paired with #bad5fc in 4 real palettes, including Velvet and Woodsmoke, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #bad5fc in 5 real palettes, including Coastal and Velvet, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #bad5fc in 4 real palettes, including Bramble and Dusk, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green is paired with #bad5fc in 4 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Forest Floor, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
analogousshippedDeep Sky Blue is #bad5fc's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Eggplant #614051
shippedEggplant is paired with #bad5fc in 4 real palettes, including Velvet and Blush, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #bad5fc as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.5:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 14.01:1 | 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 #bad5fc 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
#bad5fc reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #bad5fc
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 #bad5fc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/bad5fc-9ca8c4-df5d4e-201f2d-e9f0f1?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