Rain Garden
Open in tool →Wet-leaf teal and moss with a soft peach — an overcast spring, calmer than the bright version and better for long reading.
Color
#4e8887
#4e8887
hex
#4e8887rgb
rgb(78, 136, 135)hsl
hsl(179, 27%, 42%)oklch
oklch(0.587 0.061 194.2)Closest name: Arctic (#648589)Relative luminance 0.2098
Colors that go with #4e8887
Charcoal, Copper and Champagne 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 #4e8887: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Copper #b87333
split-complementshippedCopper is a split-complement of #4e8887: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedChampagne is paired with #4e8887 in 4 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Midnight Luxe, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod is paired with #4e8887 in 5 real palettes, including Ledger Dark and Noir Beauty, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #4e8887 in 4 real palettes, including Tide Pool and Plaid's brand system, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Peru #cd853f
shippedPeru is paired with #4e8887 in 6 real palettes, including Mid-Century and Estate, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #4e8887 in 17 real palettes, including Rain Garden and Still Water, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Indian Red #cd5c5c
complementaryIndian Red sits directly opposite #4e8887 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 #4e8887
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #4e8887 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.04:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.2:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #4e8887 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
mcpConnect your agent — build around #4e8887
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #4e8887 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/4e8887-a2bbbe-d45996-1f272d-e9f1ed?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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