Color
#1cb5b2
#1cb5b2rgb(28, 181, 178)hsl(179, 73%, 41%)oklch(0.701 0.116 192.7)Colors that go with #1cb5b2
Charcoal, Denim 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 #1cb5b2: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #1cb5b2: 5 real palettes, including Open House and Peacock, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped7 real palettes, including Ford's brand system and Confluent's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #1cb5b2, as the lead colour.
Mustard Yellow #ffdb58
shipped4 real palettes, including Lido and Crayon Box put Mustard Yellow beside #1cb5b2, as the accent.
Orange #ffa500
shipped4 real palettes, including Mint Modern and Gopro's brand system put Orange beside #1cb5b2, as the accent.
Orange Red #ff4500
shippedOrange Red is paired with #1cb5b2 in 4 real palettes, including Cursor's brand system and Launch Orange, as the lead colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #1cb5b2 in 5 real palettes, including Confluent's brand system and Khan Academy's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Light Coral #f08080
complementaryLight Coral sits directly opposite #1cb5b2 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #1cb5b2
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #1cb5b2 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.53:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.3:1 | 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 #1cb5b2 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 #1cb5b2 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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