Color
#42ae8a
#42ae8argb(66, 174, 138)hsl(160, 45%, 47%)oklch(0.679 0.113 167.6)Colors that go with #42ae8a
Charcoal, Hot Pink and 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 #42ae8a: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Hot Pink #ff69b4
complementaryshippedHot Pink sits directly opposite #42ae8a on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Unity's brand system and Spotify's brand system put Blue beside #42ae8a, as the supporting colour.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedDesigners have shipped Cornflower Blue with #42ae8a: 4 real palettes, including Spotify's brand system and Terminal, as the supporting colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #42ae8a: 4 real palettes, including Unity's brand system and Spline's brand system, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped7 real palettes, including Fintech Trust and Tide Pool put Midnight Blue beside #42ae8a, as the text colour against it.
Mustard Yellow #ffdb58
shipped5 real palettes, including Diner and Lido put Mustard Yellow beside #42ae8a, as the accent.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #42ae8a in 6 real palettes, including Khan Academy's brand system and Brilliant's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #42ae8a
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #42ae8a as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.74:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.65:1 | 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 #42ae8a 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 #42ae8a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/42ae8a-a2beb8-d459be-1f2c2d-e9f1eb?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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