Color
#38c2bf
#38c2bfrgb(56, 194, 191)hsl(179, 55%, 49%)oklch(0.742 0.114 192.8)Colors that go with #38c2bf
Charcoal, Mustard Yellow and Slate Gray 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 #38c2bf: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Mustard Yellow #ffdb58
shippedMustard Yellow is paired with #38c2bf in 4 real palettes, including Crayon Box and Fresh Juice, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Slate Gray #708090
shippedSlate Gray is paired with #38c2bf in 4 real palettes, including Ledger Dark and Indigo SaaS, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #38c2bf in 12 real palettes, including Crayon Box and Resort, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Wheat #f5deb3
shippedWheat is paired with #38c2bf in 4 real palettes, including Resort and Mint Chip, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Light Coral #f08080
complementaryLight Coral sits directly opposite #38c2bf on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #38c2bf in 3 real palettes, including Polaroid and Coastal, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green is paired with #38c2bf in 3 real palettes, including Warp's brand system and Undergrowth, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #38c2bf
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #38c2bf as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.18:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.64:1 | 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 #38c2bf 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 #38c2bf and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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