Color
#28afa6
#28afa6rgb(40, 175, 166)hsl(176, 63%, 42%)oklch(0.684 0.11 188)Colors that go with #28afa6
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 #28afa6: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #28afa6: 5 real palettes, including Peacock and Open House, as the supporting colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped7 real palettes, including Ford's brand system and Confluent's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #28afa6, as the lead colour.
Mustard Yellow #ffdb58
shipped4 real palettes, including Diner and Lido put Mustard Yellow beside #28afa6, as the accent.
Orange #ffa500
shipped4 real palettes, including Mint Modern and Gopro's brand system put Orange beside #28afa6, as the accent.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #28afa6 in 5 real palettes, including Khan Academy's brand system and Confluent's brand system, as the accent.
Steel Blue #4682b4
shippedDesigners have shipped Steel Blue with #28afa6: 4 real palettes, including Fintech Trust and Deep Water, as the supporting colour.
Tomato #ff6347
split-complementshippedTomato is a split-complement of #28afa6: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #28afa6
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #28afa6 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.7:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.77:1 | 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 #28afa6 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 #28afa6 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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