Color
#3de5eb
#3de5ebrgb(61, 229, 235)hsl(182, 81%, 58%)oklch(0.843 0.131 198.6)Colors that go with #3de5eb
Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and Light Coral 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 #3de5eb: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
analogousshippedDeep Sky Blue is #3de5eb's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Light Coral #f08080
complementaryshippedLight Coral sits directly opposite #3de5eb on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #3de5eb in 11 real palettes, including Boeing's brand system and Astro's brand system, as the text colour against it.
Wheat #f5deb3
shippedDesigners have shipped Wheat with #3de5eb: 4 real palettes, including Mint Chip and Oatly's brand system, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #3de5eb in 3 real palettes, including Formula 1's brand system and Frost & Ember, as the supporting colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #3de5eb: 3 real palettes, including Bluesky Social's brand system and Patreon's brand system, as the lead colour.
Light Pink #ffb6c1
shippedLight Pink shows up next to #3de5eb in 3 real palettes, including Pastel Pop and Macaron, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #3de5eb
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #3de5eb as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.54:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 13.61:1 | 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 #3de5eb 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
#3de5eb 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 #3de5eb and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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