Color
#23a491
#23a491rgb(35, 164, 145)hsl(171, 65%, 39%)oklch(0.648 0.11 180)Colors that go with #23a491
Charcoal, Blue and Copper 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 #23a491: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Unity's brand system and Canva's brand system put Blue beside #23a491, as the supporting colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #23a491: 5 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Wellness, as the accent.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedDesigners have shipped Cornflower Blue with #23a491: 4 real palettes, including Arctic and Canva's brand system, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #23a491 in 6 real palettes, including Diner and DuckDuckGo's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #23a491: 7 real palettes, including Peacock and Intel's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped8 real palettes, including Tide Pool and Fintech Trust put Midnight Blue beside #23a491, as that palette's text colour.
Deep Pink #ff1493
complementaryDeep Pink sits directly opposite #23a491 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 #23a491
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #23a491 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.09:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.79:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #23a491 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 #23a491 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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