Heatwave
Open in tool →Blaze orange and hot yellow with one cold blue — the high-noon palette; use the blue where the eye needs to rest.
CSS color
#1e90ffrgb(30, 144, 255)hsl(210, 100%, 56%)oklch(0.652 0.19 253.2)Dodgerblue on this page is the real value, not a screenshot: exact hex, RGB, HSL and OKLCH, ten tints and ten shades, classic harmonies, and WCAG contrast with fixes — plus the 4 public brands that use it and the palettes it appears in.
Charcoal, Amber and 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 is the text near-black for dodgerblue: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Amber is paired with dodgerblue in 9 real palettes, including Heatwave and Google's brand system, as the supporting colour.
10 real palettes, including Unity's brand system and Readymag's brand system put Blue beside dodgerblue, as the supporting colour.
Designers have shipped Cobalt Blue with dodgerblue: 8 real palettes, including Blue Mono and Carrefour's brand system, as the lead colour.
Crimson is paired with dodgerblue in 6 real palettes, including Behance's brand system and NASCAR's brand system, as the accent.
Dark Orange shows up next to dodgerblue in 4 real palettes, including Playground and Elastic's brand system, as the lead colour.
Designers have shipped Deep Sky Blue with dodgerblue: 8 real palettes, including Venmo's brand system and Figma's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Dark Goldenrod sits directly opposite dodgerblue on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
| dodgerblue as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 3.24:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.49:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with dodgerblue as the background.
dodgerblue reads as cool, vivid, technical. 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 #1e90ff and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/1e90ff-9cabc4-df514e-1f202d-e9f1f1?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