Crayon Box
Open in tool →Red, teal and yellow at crayon saturation — joyful, but on white with black type so it stays readable for grown-ups.
Color
#09cec0
#09cec0
hex
#09cec0rgb
rgb(9, 206, 192)hsl
hsl(176, 92%, 42%)oklch
oklch(0.767 0.133 186.2)Closest name: darkturquoise (#00ced1)Relative luminance 0.4801
Colors that go with #09cec0
Charcoal, Blue and Royal 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #09cec0: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Canva's brand system and Unity's brand system put Blue beside #09cec0, as the accent.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #09cec0 in 4 real palettes, including Docker's brand system and Khan Academy's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #09cec0 in 14 real palettes, including Crayon Box and Resort, as the text colour against it.
Wheat #f5deb3
shippedDesigners have shipped Wheat with #09cec0: 4 real palettes, including Resort and Mint Chip, as the accent.
Light Coral #f08080
complementaryLight Coral sits directly opposite #09cec0 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #09cec0 in 3 real palettes, including Polaroid and Coastal, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #09cec0 in 3 real palettes, including Riot Games's brand system and Tiffany & Co.'s brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #09cec0
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #09cec0 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.98:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10.6:1 | 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 #09cec0 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
mcpConnect your agent — build around #09cec0
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 #09cec0 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/09cec0-a2bdbe-d4599d-1f282d-e9f1ed?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