Color
#5bd2bc
#5bd2bcrgb(91, 210, 188)hsl(169, 57%, 59%)oklch(0.79 0.112 179.2)Colors that go with #5bd2bc
Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and Slate Gray 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 #5bd2bc: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #5bd2bc: 5 real palettes, including Astro's brand system and Salesforce's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped5 real palettes, including Ledger Dark and Still Water put Slate Gray beside #5bd2bc, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #5bd2bc in 20 real palettes, including Crayon Box and Mint Chip, as the text colour against it.
Wheat #f5deb3
shippedDesigners have shipped Wheat with #5bd2bc: 5 real palettes, including Mint Chip and Oatly's brand system, as the accent.
Light Coral #f08080
complementaryLight Coral sits directly opposite #5bd2bc on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
split-complementshippedDark Salmon is a split-complement of #5bd2bc: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped3 real palettes, including Rain Garden and Nursery put Blush Pink beside #5bd2bc, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #5bd2bc
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #5bd2bc as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.84:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.39:1 | 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 #5bd2bc 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 #5bd2bc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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