Color
#40e2d5
#40e2d5rgb(64, 226, 213)hsl(175, 74%, 57%)oklch(0.829 0.131 187)Colors that go with #40e2d5
Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and Crimson 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 #40e2d5: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
analogousshippedDeep Sky Blue is #40e2d5's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #40e2d5 in 4 real palettes, including Tiffany & Co.'s brand system and Formula 1's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #40e2d5 in 11 real palettes, including Astro's brand system and Crayon Box, as the text colour against it.
Light Coral #f08080
complementaryLight Coral sits directly opposite #40e2d5 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #40e2d5: 3 real palettes, including Bluesky Social's brand system and Patreon's brand system, as the lead colour.
Plum #dda0dd
triadicshippedPlum completes a triad with #40e2d5 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Tomato #ff6347
shipped3 real palettes, including Crayon Box and Fresh Juice put Tomato beside #40e2d5, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #40e2d5
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #40e2d5 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.61:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 13.06:1 | 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 #40e2d5 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 #40e2d5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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