Color
#09989f
#09989frgb(9, 152, 159)hsl(183, 89%, 33%)oklch(0.619 0.104 200.7)Colors that go with #09989f
Charcoal, Crimson and Cobalt 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.
Crimson #dc143c
complementaryshippedCrimson sits directly opposite #09989f on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #09989f: 4 real palettes, including Fintech Trust and Intel's brand system, as the lead colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #09989f: 5 real palettes, including Wellness and Clean Beauty, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #09989f: 11 real palettes, including Peacock and Gopro's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped8 real palettes, including Tide Pool and Ford's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #09989f, as that palette's text colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #09989f in 6 real palettes, including Confluent's brand system and Elastic's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #09989f in 11 real palettes, including Rain Garden and Still Water, as that palette's text colour.
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #09989f as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 3.5:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6:1 | 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 #09989f 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
#09989f 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 #09989f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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