Color
#31caed
#31caedrgb(49, 202, 237)hsl(191, 84%, 56%)oklch(0.778 0.13 217.7)Colors that go with #31caed
Charcoal, Dark Orange 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 #31caed: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Orange #ff8c00
split-complementshippedDark Orange is a split-complement of #31caed: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #31caed in 5 real palettes, including Telehealth and Confluent's brand system, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedPowder Blue is paired with #31caed in 4 real palettes, including Calendly's brand system and Audible's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #31caed in 6 real palettes, including 1password's brand system and Telehealth, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #31caed in 11 real palettes, including Crayon Box and Astro's brand system, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Wheat #f5deb3
shippedWheat is paired with #31caed in 4 real palettes, including Oatly's brand system and Still Water, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Salmon #fa8072
complementarySalmon sits directly opposite #31caed 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 #31caed
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #31caed as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.94:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10.8:1 | 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 #31caed as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Fonts for this mood
#31caed reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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 #31caed and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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