Deep Water
Open in tool →Cyan and mid-blue on abyss navy with a foam highlight — the ocean at depth; the darker the surface, the brighter the water.
Color
#41b2d8rgb(65, 178, 216)hsl(195, 66%, 55%)oklch(0.716 0.114 224.4)Charcoal, Amber and Dark Orange 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 is the text near-black for #41b2d8: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Amber is paired with #41b2d8 in 4 real palettes, including Blueprint and Salesforce's brand system, as the accent.
Dark Orange shows up next to #41b2d8 in 4 real palettes, including Elastic's brand system and Learning App, as the lead colour.
Designers have shipped Denim with #41b2d8: 6 real palettes, including Coca-Cola's brand system and Open House, as the accent.
7 real palettes, including Confluent's brand system and Kraken's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #41b2d8, as the lead colour.
Royal Blue is paired with #41b2d8 in 9 real palettes, including Confluent's brand system and Elastic's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Taupe is paired with #41b2d8 in 10 real palettes, including Cursor's brand system and Astro's brand system, as the text colour against it.
Coral sits directly opposite #41b2d8 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
| #41b2d8 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.45:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.58:1 | 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 #41b2d8 as the background.
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
#41b2d8 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 #41b2d8 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/41b2d8-9cb5c4-df4e70-1f242d-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