Beach Hut
Open in tool →Sea blue with sun-bleached yellow and a coral — striped-canvas summer, softened so it works on a screen.
Color
#0889a6rgb(8, 137, 166)hsl(191, 91%, 34%)oklch(0.583 0.105 220)Charcoal, Crimson and Rust 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 #0889a6: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Crimson is a split-complement of #0889a6: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Rust sits directly opposite #0889a6 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber is paired with #0889a6 in 4 real palettes, including Beach Hut and Wired's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Designers have shipped Cobalt Blue with #0889a6: 6 real palettes, including Hershey's's brand system and Glacier, as the supporting colour.
Copper is a split-complement of #0889a6: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Designers have shipped Denim with #0889a6: 14 real palettes, including Discover's brand system and Capital One's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Goldenrod shows up next to #0889a6 in 5 real palettes, including Sapphire & Gold and Ledger Dark, as the supporting colour.
| #0889a6 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.09:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.14:1 | 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 #0889a6 as the background.
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
#0889a6 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 #0889a6 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/0889a6-a2b6be-df4e7a-1f252d-e9f1ef?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