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
#12d3cd
#12d3cd
hex
#12d3cdrgb
rgb(18, 211, 205)hsl
hsl(178, 84%, 45%)oklch
oklch(0.784 0.133 191.1)Closest name: mediumturquoise (#48d1cc)Relative luminance 0.5112
Colors that go with #12d3cd
Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and Dodger 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 #12d3cd: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
analogousshippedDeep Sky Blue is #12d3cd's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #12d3cd: 4 real palettes, including Patreon's brand system and Unity's brand system, as the accent.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #12d3cd 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 #12d3cd in 13 real palettes, including Crayon Box and Mint Chip, as the text colour against it.
Wheat #f5deb3
shippedDesigners have shipped Wheat with #12d3cd: 4 real palettes, including Mint Chip and Oatly's brand system, as the accent.
Light Coral #f08080
complementaryLight Coral sits directly opposite #12d3cd on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped3 real palettes, including Uber's brand system and Warp's brand system put Blue beside #12d3cd, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #12d3cd
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #12d3cd as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.87:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.22:1 | 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 #12d3cd 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 #12d3cd
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 #12d3cd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/12d3cd-a2bcbe-d45999-1f282d-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