Lagoon
Open in tool →Turquoise and teal with a sand-yellow on white — shallow tropical water; the deep teal text is the reef.
Color
#35bbab
#35bbab
hex
#35bbabrgb
rgb(53, 187, 171)hsl
hsl(173, 56%, 47%)oklch
oklch(0.718 0.115 183.3)Closest name: Emerald Bliss (#4cbdac)Relative luminance 0.3924
Colors that go with #35bbab
Charcoal, Hot Pink and Denim 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 #35bbab: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Hot Pink #ff69b4
complementaryshippedHot Pink sits directly opposite #35bbab on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #35bbab: 4 real palettes, including Open House and UEFA's brand system, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped6 real palettes, including Ford's brand system and Confluent's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #35bbab, as the accent.
Mustard Yellow #ffdb58
shipped4 real palettes, including Crayon Box and Fresh Juice put Mustard Yellow beside #35bbab, as the accent.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #35bbab in 5 real palettes, including Khan Academy's brand system and Brilliant's brand system, as the accent.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #35bbab in 13 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 #35bbab, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #35bbab
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #35bbab as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.37:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.85:1 | 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 #35bbab 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 #35bbab
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 #35bbab and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/35bbab-a2bebe-d459a3-1f292d-e9f1ec?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