Color
#30ab88
#30ab88rgb(48, 171, 136)hsl(163, 56%, 43%)oklch(0.666 0.119 169.5)Colors that go with #30ab88
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 #30ab88: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedDesigners have shipped Cornflower Blue with #30ab88: 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 #30ab88, as the text colour against it.
Mustard Yellow #ffdb58
shipped5 real palettes, including Diner and Lido put Mustard Yellow beside #30ab88, as the accent.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #30ab88 in 6 real palettes, including Khan Academy's brand system and Brilliant's brand system, as the accent.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #30ab88 in 15 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Resort, as the surface under it.
Tomato #ff6347
split-complementshippedTomato is a split-complement of #30ab88: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Deep Pink #ff1493
complementaryDeep Pink sits directly opposite #30ab88 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 #30ab88
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #30ab88 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.87:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.31:1 | 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 #30ab88 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 #30ab88 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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