Color
#42b398
#42b398rgb(66, 179, 152)hsl(166, 46%, 48%)oklch(0.695 0.11 174.2)Colors that go with #42b398
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 #42b398: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Hot Pink #ff69b4
complementaryshippedHot Pink sits directly opposite #42b398 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 Canva's brand system put Blue beside #42b398, as the supporting colour.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedDesigners have shipped Cornflower Blue with #42b398: 4 real palettes, including Canva's brand system and Terminal, as the supporting colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #42b398 in 4 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Forest Floor, as the supporting colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped8 real palettes, including Fintech Trust and Ford's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #42b398, as the text colour against it.
Mustard Yellow #ffdb58
shipped5 real palettes, including Diner and Crayon Box put Mustard Yellow beside #42b398, as the accent.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #42b398 in 6 real palettes, including Khan Academy's brand system and Brilliant's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #42b398
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Contrast
| #42b398 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.58:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.13:1 | 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 #42b398 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 #42b398 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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