Lido
Open in tool →Pool blue, watermelon and sun on white — the poolside summer set; the deep teal text keeps it from going juvenile.
Color
#1ea4c2
#1ea4c2
hex
#1ea4c2rgb
rgb(30, 164, 194)hsl
hsl(191, 73%, 44%)oklch
oklch(0.665 0.114 218)Closest name: Blue Ocean (#009dc4)Relative luminance 0.3072
Colors that go with #1ea4c2
Charcoal, Orange Red and Amber 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 #1ea4c2: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Orange Red #ff4500
complementaryshippedOrange Red sits directly opposite #1ea4c2 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #1ea4c2 in 6 real palettes, including Beach Hut and Salesforce's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #1ea4c2 in 4 real palettes, including Diner and Riot Games's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #1ea4c2: 6 real palettes, including Gopro's brand system and Coca-Cola's brand system, as the lead colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
analogousshippedDodger Blue is #1ea4c2's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped9 real palettes, including Ford's brand system and Confluent's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #1ea4c2, as the accent.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #1ea4c2: 4 real palettes, including First Snow and Calendly's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #1ea4c2
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #1ea4c2 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.94:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.14:1 | 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 #1ea4c2 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
Fonts for this mood
#1ea4c2 reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #1ea4c2
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 #1ea4c2 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/1ea4c2-a2b6be-df4e7a-1f252d-e9f1ef?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