Deep Water
Open in tool →Cyan and mid-blue on abyss navy with a foam highlight — the ocean at depth; the darker the surface, the brighter the water.
Color
#09afdc
#09afdc
hex
#09afdcrgb
rgb(9, 175, 220)hsl
hsl(193, 92%, 45%)oklch
oklch(0.702 0.132 224.9)Closest name: Aquarius (#2db0ce)Relative luminance 0.3589
Colors that go with #09afdc
Charcoal, Taupe and Coral 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 #09afdc: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #09afdc in 4 real palettes, including Crayon Box and Dusk, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Coral #ff7f50
complementaryCoral sits directly opposite #09afdc on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Peru #cd853f
split-complementshippedPeru is a split-complement of #09afdc: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #09afdc in 3 real palettes, including Blue Mono and First Snow, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Mustard Yellow #ffdb58
shippedMustard Yellow is paired with #09afdc in 3 real palettes, including Lido and Crayon Box, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Terracotta #e2725b
shippedTerracotta is paired with #09afdc in 3 real palettes, including Alpine and Harbour, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Hot Pink #ff69b4
triadicshippedHot Pink completes a triad with #09afdc — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Real palettes that use #09afdc
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #09afdc as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.57:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.18:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #09afdc as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#09afdc reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #09afdc
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #09afdc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/09afdc-a2b5be-df4e75-1f242d-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