Deep Water
Open in tool →Cyan and mid-blue on abyss navy with a foam highlight — the ocean at depth; the darker the surface, the brighter the water.
Color
#3db1dbrgb(61, 177, 219)hsl(196, 69%, 55%)oklch(0.714 0.118 226.5)Charcoal, Amber and Dark Orange 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 is the text near-black for #3db1db: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Amber is paired with #3db1db in 5 real palettes, including Blueprint and Salesforce's brand system, as the accent.
Dark Orange shows up next to #3db1db in 4 real palettes, including Elastic's brand system and Learning App, as the lead colour.
Designers have shipped Denim with #3db1db: 6 real palettes, including Coca-Cola's brand system and Gopro's brand system, as the accent.
7 real palettes, including Confluent's brand system and Kraken's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #3db1db, as the lead colour.
Orange Red is paired with #3db1db in 4 real palettes, including Cursor's brand system and Figma's brand system, as the lead colour.
Royal Blue is paired with #3db1db in 7 real palettes, including Confluent's brand system and Elastic's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Coral sits directly opposite #3db1db on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
| #3db1db as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.47:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.51:1 | 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 #3db1db as the background.
#3db1db 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 #3db1db and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/3db1db-9cb5c4-df4e6e-1f232d-e9f1ef?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