Color
#45aeb5
#45aeb5rgb(69, 174, 181)hsl(184, 45%, 49%)oklch(0.693 0.096 201.3)Colors that go with #45aeb5
Charcoal, Light Coral and Amber 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 #45aeb5: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Light Coral #f08080
complementaryshippedLight Coral sits directly opposite #45aeb5 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #45aeb5 in 4 real palettes, including Blueprint and Salesforce's brand system, as the accent.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
analogousshippedCornflower Blue is #45aeb5's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #45aeb5 in 4 real palettes, including Warp's brand system and Undergrowth, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #45aeb5: 6 real palettes, including Open House and Coca-Cola's brand system, as the lead colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #45aeb5: 5 real palettes, including Unity's brand system and Patreon's brand system, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped9 real palettes, including Ford's brand system and Confluent's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #45aeb5, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #45aeb5
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #45aeb5 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.63:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.97:1 | 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 #45aeb5 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
#45aeb5 reads as cool, modern. 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 #45aeb5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/45aeb5-a2b9be-df4e8a-1f262d-e9f1ee?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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