Color

#42c8cd

#42c8cd
hex#42c8cd
rgbrgb(66, 200, 205)
hslhsl(182, 58%, 53%)
oklchoklch(0.764 0.113 198.7)
Closest name: darkturquoise (#00ced1)Relative luminance 0.4687

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#cd4642

#42cd8c · #4283cd

#cd42c8 · #c8cd42

Split-complementary

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#cd4283 · #cd8c42

#8c42cd · #cd4642 · #83cd42

Contrast

#42c8cd as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.02:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #238285 as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #1b6265 as the text (7.04:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #474747 (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #292929 (7.19:1)
Aaon black
10.37:1passpasspassPasses 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 #42c8cd as the background.

Brands using this color

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

Fonts for this mood

#42c8cd reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #42c8cd
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 #42c8cd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/42c8cd-a2babe-d45990-1f272d-e9f1ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md