Lagoon
Open in tool →Turquoise and teal with a sand-yellow on white — shallow tropical water; the deep teal text is the reef.
Color
#13b4ac
#13b4ac
hex
#13b4acrgb
rgb(19, 180, 172)hsl
hsl(177, 81%, 39%)oklch
oklch(0.695 0.118 189.1)Closest name: lightseagreen (#20b2aa)Relative luminance 0.3576
Colors that go with #13b4ac
Charcoal, Denim 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 #13b4ac: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #13b4ac: 5 real palettes, including Peacock and Open House, as the supporting colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #13b4ac: 4 real palettes, including Unity's brand system and Patreon's brand system, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped7 real palettes, including Ford's brand system and Confluent's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #13b4ac, as the lead colour.
Mustard Yellow #ffdb58
shipped4 real palettes, including Lido and Diner put Mustard Yellow beside #13b4ac, as the accent.
Orange Red #ff4500
shippedOrange Red is paired with #13b4ac in 4 real palettes, including Cursor's brand system and Launch Orange, as the lead colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #13b4ac in 5 real palettes, including Khan Academy's brand system and Confluent's brand system, as the accent.
Tomato #ff6347
split-complementshippedTomato is a split-complement of #13b4ac: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #13b4ac
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #13b4ac as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.58:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.15:1 | 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 #13b4ac 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 #13b4ac
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 #13b4ac and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/13b4ac-a2bcbe-d4599b-1f282d-e9f1ed?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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