Color
#45d1de
#45d1dergb(69, 209, 222)hsl(185, 70%, 57%)oklch(0.792 0.118 204.1)Colors that go with #45d1de
Charcoal, Crimson and Dodger 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 #45d1de: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #45d1de in 4 real palettes, including Riot Games's brand system and Tiffany & Co.'s brand system, as the supporting colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #45d1de: 4 real palettes, including Patreon's brand system and Opensea's brand system, as the accent.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #45d1de in 6 real palettes, including Telehealth and 1password's brand system, as the lead colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped5 real palettes, including Still Water and Ledger Dark put Slate Gray beside #45d1de, as the lead colour.
Steel Blue #4682b4
shippedDesigners have shipped Steel Blue with #45d1de: 4 real palettes, including Glacier and Deep Water, as the lead colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #45d1de in 15 real palettes, including Crayon Box and Boeing's brand system, as the text colour against it.
Salmon #fa8072
complementarySalmon sits directly opposite #45d1de on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #45d1de
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #45d1de as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.84:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.43:1 | 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 #45d1de 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
#45d1de reads as cool, vivid, technical. 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 #45d1de and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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