Color
#3ea8a4
#3ea8a4rgb(62, 168, 164)hsl(178, 46%, 45%)oklch(0.67 0.096 191.6)Colors that go with #3ea8a4
Charcoal, Copper and Midnight 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 #3ea8a4: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #3ea8a4 in 5 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Dusk, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #3ea8a4 in 4 real palettes, including Tide Pool and Fintech Trust, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Peru #cd853f
triadicshippedPeru completes a triad with #3ea8a4 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Slate Gray #708090
shippedSlate Gray is paired with #3ea8a4 in 4 real palettes, including Indigo SaaS and Graphite, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #3ea8a4 in 19 real palettes, including Resort and Rain Garden, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Wheat #f5deb3
shippedWheat is paired with #3ea8a4 in 4 real palettes, including Resort and Still Water, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Pale Violet Red #db7093
complementaryPale Violet Red sits directly opposite #3ea8a4 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 #3ea8a4
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #3ea8a4 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.86:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.34:1 | 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 #3ea8a4 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 #3ea8a4 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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