Color
#49c5a2
#49c5a2rgb(73, 197, 162)hsl(163, 52%, 53%)oklch(0.745 0.121 170.9)Colors that go with #49c5a2
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 #49c5a2: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Hot Pink #ff69b4
complementaryshippedHot Pink sits directly opposite #49c5a2 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including Unity's brand system and Canva's brand system put Blue beside #49c5a2, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #49c5a2 in 4 real palettes, including DuckDuckGo's brand system and Tiffany & Co.'s brand system, as the supporting colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #49c5a2 in 4 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Forest Floor, as the supporting colour.
Mustard Yellow #ffdb58
shipped5 real palettes, including Fresh Juice and Crayon Box put Mustard Yellow beside #49c5a2, as the supporting colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #49c5a2 in 4 real palettes, including Khan Academy's brand system and Docker's brand system, as the accent.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #49c5a2 in 20 real palettes, including Crayon Box and Resort, as the text colour against it.
Real palettes that use #49c5a2
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #49c5a2 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.14:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.79:1 | 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 #49c5a2 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 #49c5a2 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/49c5a2-a2beb9-d459b7-1f2b2d-e9f1eb?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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