Color
#38c2cc
#38c2ccrgb(56, 194, 204)hsl(184, 59%, 51%)oklch(0.747 0.114 202.2)Colors that go with #38c2cc
Charcoal, Midnight Blue 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 #38c2cc: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #38c2cc in 4 real palettes, including Ford's brand system and First Snow, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Slate Gray #708090
shippedSlate Gray is paired with #38c2cc in 4 real palettes, including Ledger Dark and Still Water, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Steel Blue #4682b4
shippedSteel Blue is paired with #38c2cc in 4 real palettes, including Deep Water and Ford's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #38c2cc in 13 real palettes, including Crayon Box and Cursor's brand system, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Tomato #ff6347
shippedTomato is paired with #38c2cc in 4 real palettes, including Crayon Box and Lido, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Wheat #f5deb3
shippedWheat is paired with #38c2cc in 4 real palettes, including Resort and Still Water, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Light Coral #f08080
complementaryLight Coral sits directly opposite #38c2cc 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 #38c2cc
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #38c2cc as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.15:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.76:1 | 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 #38c2cc 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
#38c2cc reads as cool, modern. 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 #38c2cc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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