Color
#2bab89
#2bab89rgb(43, 171, 137)hsl(164, 60%, 42%)oklch(0.665 0.12 170.4)Colors that go with #2bab89
Charcoal, Cornflower Blue 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 #2bab89: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedDesigners have shipped Cornflower Blue with #2bab89: 4 real palettes, including Spotify's brand system and Terminal, as the supporting colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped6 real palettes, including Fintech Trust and Tide Pool put Midnight Blue beside #2bab89, as the text colour against it.
Mustard Yellow #ffdb58
shipped5 real palettes, including Diner and Lido put Mustard Yellow beside #2bab89, as the accent.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #2bab89 in 6 real palettes, including Khan Academy's brand system and Brilliant's brand system, as the accent.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #2bab89 in 14 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Resort, as the surface under it.
Tomato #ff6347
split-complementshippedTomato is a split-complement of #2bab89: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Deep Pink #ff1493
complementaryDeep Pink sits directly opposite #2bab89 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 #2bab89
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #2bab89 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.88:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.29:1 | 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 #2bab89 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 #2bab89 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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