Lido
Open in tool →Pool blue, watermelon and sun on white — the poolside summer set; the deep teal text keeps it from going juvenile.
Color
#0ba1bcrgb(11, 161, 188)hsl(189, 89%, 39%)oklch(0.653 0.114 215.5)Charcoal, Orange Red and Amber 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 #0ba1bc: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Orange Red sits directly opposite #0ba1bc 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 #0ba1bc in 5 real palettes, including Beach Hut and Salesforce's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Crimson is paired with #0ba1bc in 5 real palettes, including Diner and Riot Games's brand system, as the lead colour.
Designers have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #0ba1bc: 4 real palettes, including Snowflake AI Data Cloud's brand system and Remix's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Designers have shipped Denim with #0ba1bc: 7 real palettes, including Gopro's brand system and Peacock, as the lead colour.
11 real palettes, including SoFi's brand system and Ford's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #0ba1bc, as the accent.
Royal Blue is paired with #0ba1bc in 4 real palettes, including Confluent's brand system and Elastic's brand system, as the supporting colour.
| #0ba1bc as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 3.07:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.84:1 | 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 #0ba1bc as the background.
#0ba1bc 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 #0ba1bc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/0ba1bc-a2b7be-df4e7e-1f252d-e9f1ee?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