Color
#4ec1ae
#4ec1aergb(78, 193, 174)hsl(170, 48%, 53%)oklch(0.74 0.107 180.5)Colors that go with #4ec1ae
Charcoal, Light Coral and Dark Olive Green 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 #4ec1ae: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Light Coral #f08080
complementaryshippedLight Coral sits directly opposite #4ec1ae on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #4ec1ae in 4 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Forest Floor, as the supporting colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped5 real palettes, including Confluent's brand system and Ford's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #4ec1ae, as the lead colour.
Mustard Yellow #ffdb58
shipped5 real palettes, including Crayon Box and Fresh Juice put Mustard Yellow beside #4ec1ae, as the accent.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #4ec1ae in 4 real palettes, including Khan Academy's brand system and Brilliant's brand system, as the accent.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped6 real palettes, including Ledger Dark and Indigo SaaS put Slate Gray beside #4ec1ae, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #4ec1ae in 22 real palettes, including Crayon Box and Resort, as the text colour against it.
Real palettes that use #4ec1ae
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #4ec1ae as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.2:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.56:1 | 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 #4ec1ae 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 #4ec1ae and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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