Color
#40b0ae
#40b0aergb(64, 176, 174)hsl(179, 47%, 47%)oklch(0.694 0.1 193.4)Colors that go with #40b0ae
Charcoal, Dark Olive Green and Denim 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 #40b0ae: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #40b0ae in 4 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Forest Floor, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #40b0ae: 5 real palettes, including Open House and Peacock, as the lead colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #40b0ae: 5 real palettes, including Unity's brand system and Patreon's brand system, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped7 real palettes, including Ford's brand system and Confluent's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #40b0ae, as the lead colour.
Mustard Yellow #ffdb58
shipped4 real palettes, including Lido and Diner put Mustard Yellow beside #40b0ae, as the accent.
Orange #ffa500
shipped4 real palettes, including Mint Modern and Graphite put Orange beside #40b0ae, as the accent.
Light Coral #f08080
complementaryLight Coral sits directly opposite #40b0ae 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 #40b0ae
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #40b0ae as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.61:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.04:1 | 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 #40b0ae 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 #40b0ae and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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