Color
#0cb09d
#0cb09drgb(12, 176, 157)hsl(173, 87%, 37%)oklch(0.68 0.121 181.4)Colors that go with #0cb09d
Charcoal, Hot Pink and Midnight 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 #0cb09d: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Hot Pink #ff69b4
complementaryshippedHot Pink sits directly opposite #0cb09d on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped6 real palettes, including Fintech Trust and Ford's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #0cb09d, as the text colour against it.
Mustard Yellow #ffdb58
shipped4 real palettes, including Diner and Lido put Mustard Yellow beside #0cb09d, as the accent.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #0cb09d in 7 real palettes, including Khan Academy's brand system and Brilliant's brand system, as the accent.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #0cb09d in 12 real palettes, including Resort and Undergrowth, as the text colour against it.
Tomato #ff6347
split-complementshippedTomato is a split-complement of #0cb09d: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped3 real palettes, including Rain Garden and Garden Wedding put Blush Pink beside #0cb09d, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #0cb09d
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #0cb09d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.72:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.71:1 | 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 #0cb09d as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
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 #0cb09d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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