Color
#036daa
#036daargb(3, 109, 170)hsl(202, 97%, 34%)oklch(0.515 0.126 244.1)Colors that go with #036daa
Charcoal, Crimson and Medium Sea Green 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 #036daa: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #036daa in 4 real palettes, including Netflix's brand system and Chase's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
shippedMedium Sea Green is paired with #036daa in 4 real palettes, including Fintech Trust and Console Light, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #036daa in 5 real palettes, including Open House and Fintech Trust, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Orange Red #ff4500
shippedOrange Red is paired with #036daa in 4 real palettes, including PlanetScale's brand system and Strava's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #036daa in 8 real palettes, including Astro's brand system and Dusk, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Sienna #a0522d
complementarySienna sits directly opposite #036daa on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Rust #b7410e
split-complementshippedRust is a split-complement of #036daa: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #036daa
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #036daa as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.57:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.77:1 | fail | pass | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #036daa as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Fonts for this mood
#036daa 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 #036daa and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/036daa-9cb1c4-df4e5f-1f222d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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