Color
#5cd1cb
#5cd1cbrgb(92, 209, 203)hsl(177, 56%, 59%)oklch(0.792 0.106 190.6)Colors that go with #5cd1cb
Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and Light Coral 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 #5cd1cb: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
analogousshippedDeep Sky Blue is #5cd1cb's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Light Coral #f08080
complementaryshippedLight Coral sits directly opposite #5cd1cb on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDodger Blue is paired with #5cd1cb in 4 real palettes, including Patreon's brand system and Opensea's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Plum #dda0dd
triadicshippedPlum completes a triad with #5cd1cb — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedPowder Blue is paired with #5cd1cb in 4 real palettes, including Audible's brand system and Steam's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #5cd1cb in 6 real palettes, including Docker's brand system and Brilliant's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Slate Gray #708090
shippedSlate Gray is paired with #5cd1cb in 6 real palettes, including Ledger Dark and Still Water, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #5cd1cb
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #5cd1cb as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.84:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.44:1 | 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 #5cd1cb 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 #5cd1cb and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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