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
#28ccc7
#28ccc7
hex
#28ccc7rgb
rgb(40, 204, 199)hsl
hsl(178, 67%, 48%)oklch
oklch(0.767 0.125 191.6)Closest name: darkturquoise (#00ced1)Relative luminance 0.4776
Colors that go with #28ccc7
Charcoal, Blue and Crimson 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 #28ccc7: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Canva's brand system and Uber's brand system put Blue beside #28ccc7, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #28ccc7 in 4 real palettes, including Riot Games's brand system and Tiffany & Co.'s brand system, as the supporting colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #28ccc7: 4 real palettes, including Patreon's brand system and Unity's brand system, as the accent.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #28ccc7 in 4 real palettes, including Docker's brand system and Khan Academy's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #28ccc7 in 14 real palettes, including Crayon Box and Resort, as the text colour against it.
Tomato #ff6347
shipped4 real palettes, including Crayon Box and Fresh Juice put Tomato beside #28ccc7, as the lead colour.
Light Coral #f08080
complementaryLight Coral sits directly opposite #28ccc7 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 #28ccc7
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #28ccc7 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.99:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10.55:1 | 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 #28ccc7 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 #28ccc7
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 #28ccc7 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/28ccc7-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