Crayon Box
Open in tool →Red, teal and yellow at crayon saturation — joyful, but on white with black type so it stays readable for grown-ups.
Color
#22cec8
#22cec8
hex
#22cec8rgb
rgb(34, 206, 200)hsl
hsl(178, 72%, 47%)oklch
oklch(0.771 0.128 191)Closest name: darkturquoise (#00ced1)Relative luminance 0.4865
Colors that go with #22cec8
Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue 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 #22cec8: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
analogousshippedDeep Sky Blue is #22cec8's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDodger Blue is paired with #22cec8 in 4 real palettes, including Patreon's brand system and Unity's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #22cec8 in 4 real palettes, including Docker's brand system and Khan Academy's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Steel Blue #4682b4
shippedSteel Blue is paired with #22cec8 in 4 real palettes, including Deep Water and Glacier, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #22cec8 in 13 real palettes, including Crayon Box and Mint Chip, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Tomato #ff6347
shippedTomato is paired with #22cec8 in 4 real palettes, including Crayon Box and Fresh Juice, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Wheat #f5deb3
shippedWheat is paired with #22cec8 in 4 real palettes, including Oatly's brand system and Mint Chip, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #22cec8
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #22cec8 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.96:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10.73:1 | 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 #22cec8 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 #22cec8
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 #22cec8 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/22cec8-a2bcbe-d45999-1f282d-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