Color

#138f96

#138f96
hex#138f96
rgbrgb(19, 143, 150)
hslhsl(183, 78%, 33%)
oklchoklch(0.593 0.097 201.2)
Closest name: darkcyan (#008b8b)Relative luminance 0.2199

Colors that go with #138f96

Charcoal, Copper and Crimson 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.

Real palettes that use #138f96

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#961913

#13965b · #134e96

#96138f · #8f9613

Split-complementary

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#96134e · #965b13

#5b1396 · #961913 · #4e9613

Contrast

#138f96 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.89:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #118288 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #0c5f64 as the text (7.4:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #171717 (4.61:1)
Aaon black
5.4:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #15a5ac as the text (7.01:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #138f96 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Fonts for this mood

#138f96 reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #138f96
live endpoint

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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #138f96 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/138f96-a2b9be-d4598e-1f262d-e9f1ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md