Brand color

Substack Secondary

#0083d5
hex#0083d5
rgbrgb(0, 131, 213)
hslhsl(203, 100%, 42%)
oklchoklch(0.593 0.156 247)
From Substack brand colorsRelative luminance 0.2104

Substack Secondary 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 1 public brand that uses it and the palettes it appears in.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#d65200

#00d6bd · #0019d6

#d60084 · #84d600

Split-complementary

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#d60019 · #d6bd00

#bd00d6 · #d65200 · #19d600

Contrast

Substack Secondary as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4.03:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #007bc7 as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #005b94 as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #141414 (4.57:1)
Aaon black
5.21:1passpassfail

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with Substack Secondary as the background.

Brands using this color

Fonts for this mood

Substack Secondary reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around Substack Secondary
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 #0083d5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/0083d5-9cb0c4-df4e5d-1f222d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md