Color
#38b2ac
#38b2acrgb(56, 178, 172)hsl(177, 52%, 46%)oklch(0.696 0.105 190.2)Colors that go with #38b2ac
Charcoal, Denim and Dodger 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 #38b2ac: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #38b2ac: 5 real palettes, including Open House and Peacock, as the lead colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #38b2ac: 5 real palettes, including Unity's brand system and Patreon's brand system, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped7 real palettes, including Ford's brand system and Confluent's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #38b2ac, as the lead colour.
Mustard Yellow #ffdb58
shipped4 real palettes, including Lido and Diner put Mustard Yellow beside #38b2ac, as the accent.
Orange Red #ff4500
shippedOrange Red is paired with #38b2ac in 4 real palettes, including Cursor's brand system and Launch Orange, as the lead colour.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #38b2ac: 4 real palettes, including First Snow and Crypto.com's brand system, as the accent.
Tomato #ff6347
split-complementshippedTomato is a split-complement of #38b2ac: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #38b2ac
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #38b2ac as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.58:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.13:1 | 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 #38b2ac 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 #38b2ac and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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