Lagoon
Open in tool →Turquoise and teal with a sand-yellow on white — shallow tropical water; the deep teal text is the reef.
Color
#1db4acrgb(29, 180, 172)hsl(177, 72%, 41%)oklch(0.697 0.116 189)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 is the text near-black for #1db4ac: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Designers have shipped Denim with #1db4ac: 4 real palettes, including Peacock and Open House, as the supporting colour.
Designers have shipped Dodger Blue with #1db4ac: 4 real palettes, including Unity's brand system and Patreon's brand system, as the lead colour.
7 real palettes, including Ford's brand system and Confluent's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #1db4ac, as the accent.
4 real palettes, including Lido and Diner put Mustard Yellow beside #1db4ac, as the accent.
Orange Red is paired with #1db4ac in 4 real palettes, including Cursor's brand system and Launch Orange, as the lead colour.
Royal Blue is paired with #1db4ac in 5 real palettes, including Khan Academy's brand system and Confluent's brand system, as the accent.
Tomato is a split-complement of #1db4ac: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
| #1db4ac as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.57:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.18:1 | 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 #1db4ac as the background.
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 #1db4ac and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/1db4ac-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.
Machine-readable: color.md