Color
#40aec4
#40aec4rgb(64, 174, 196)hsl(190, 53%, 51%)oklch(0.698 0.103 213.5)Colors that go with #40aec4
Charcoal, Terracotta and Amber 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 #40aec4: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Terracotta #e2725b
complementaryshippedTerracotta sits directly opposite #40aec4 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #40aec4 in 4 real palettes, including Blueprint and Salesforce's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #40aec4 in 5 real palettes, including Coca-Cola's brand system and Open House, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDodger Blue is paired with #40aec4 in 5 real palettes, including Patreon's brand system and Figma's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #40aec4 in 8 real palettes, including Confluent's brand system and Ford's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Orange #ffa500
shippedOrange is paired with #40aec4 in 4 real palettes, including Gopro's brand system and Mistral AI's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedPowder Blue is paired with #40aec4 in 5 real palettes, including First Snow and Calendly's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #40aec4
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #40aec4 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.6:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.07:1 | 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 #40aec4 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
#40aec4 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 #40aec4 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/40aec4-a2b6be-df4e7c-1f252d-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