Color
#55ceba
#55cebargb(85, 206, 186)hsl(170, 55%, 57%)oklch(0.778 0.112 180.6)Colors that go with #55ceba
Charcoal, Dark Olive Green and Deep Sky 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 #55ceba: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #55ceba in 4 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Forest Floor, as the supporting colour.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #55ceba: 6 real palettes, including Astro's brand system and Salesforce's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #55ceba in 4 real palettes, including Docker's brand system and Khan Academy's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped5 real palettes, including Ledger Dark and Still Water put Slate Gray beside #55ceba, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #55ceba in 22 real palettes, including Crayon Box and Mint Chip, as the text colour against it.
Wheat #f5deb3
shippedDesigners have shipped Wheat with #55ceba: 5 real palettes, including Mint Chip and Resort, as the accent.
Light Coral #f08080
complementaryLight Coral sits directly opposite #55ceba 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 #55ceba
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #55ceba as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.92:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10.92:1 | 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 #55ceba 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 #55ceba and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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