Color
#5dc6d0
#5dc6d0rgb(93, 198, 208)hsl(185, 55%, 59%)oklch(0.768 0.098 203.7)Colors that go with #5dc6d0
Charcoal, Dark Salmon and 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 #5dc6d0: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
complementaryshippedDark Salmon sits directly opposite #5dc6d0 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Canva's brand system and Uber's brand system put Blue beside #5dc6d0, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #5dc6d0: 4 real palettes, including Coastal and Clean Beauty, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #5dc6d0: 4 real palettes, including UEFA's brand system and Coca-Cola's brand system, as the accent.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #5dc6d0: 5 real palettes, including Patreon's brand system and Opensea's brand system, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped8 real palettes, including First Snow and Confluent's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #5dc6d0, as the text colour against it.
Plum #dda0dd
split-complementshippedPlum is a split-complement of #5dc6d0: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #5dc6d0
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #5dc6d0 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.01:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10.45:1 | 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 #5dc6d0 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Fonts for this mood
#5dc6d0 reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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 #5dc6d0 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/5dc6d0-a2b8be-df4e88-1f262d-e9f1ee?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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