Color
#56cdb9
#56cdb9rgb(86, 205, 185)hsl(170, 54%, 57%)oklch(0.775 0.111 180.4)Colors that go with #56cdb9
Charcoal, Blue and Crimson 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 #56cdb9: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Canva's brand system and Uber's brand system put Blue beside #56cdb9, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #56cdb9 in 4 real palettes, including Tiffany & Co.'s brand system and Riot Games's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #56cdb9: 5 real palettes, including Astro's brand system and Salesforce's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #56cdb9 in 4 real palettes, including Docker's brand system and Khan Academy's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Sandy Brown #f4a460
triadicshippedSandy Brown completes a triad with #56cdb9 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped7 real palettes, including Ledger Dark and Still Water put Slate Gray beside #56cdb9, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #56cdb9 in 22 real palettes, including Crayon Box and Mint Chip, as the text colour against it.
Real palettes that use #56cdb9
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #56cdb9 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.94:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10.83:1 | 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 #56cdb9 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 #56cdb9 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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