Color

#42bdaa

#42bdaa
hex#42bdaa
rgbrgb(66, 189, 170)
hslhsl(171, 48%, 50%)
oklchoklch(0.726 0.111 180.8)
Closest name: Emerald Bliss (#4cbdac)Relative luminance 0.4046

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

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#bd4255

#42bd6d · #4292bd

#aa42bd · #bdaa42

Split-complementary

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#bd4292 · #bd6d42

#6d42bd · #bd4255 · #92bd42

Contrast

#42bdaa as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.31:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #2d8074 as the text (4.72:1)
  • AAA: use #226259 as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.7:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1f1f1f (7.14:1)
Aaon black
9.09:1passpasspassPasses 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 #42bdaa as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

mcpConnect your agent — build around #42bdaa
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #42bdaa and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/42bdaa-a2bebd-d459a7-1f292d-e9f1ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md