Color
#6aecdd
#6aecddrgb(106, 236, 221)hsl(173, 77%, 67%)oklch(0.866 0.117 185.1)Colors that go with #6aecdd
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 #6aecdd: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDeep Sky Blue is paired with #6aecdd in 6 real palettes, including Astro's brand system and Salesforce'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 #6aecdd in 4 real palettes, including Still Water and Ledger Dark, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #6aecdd in 14 real palettes, including Astro's brand system and Mint Chip, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Wheat #f5deb3
shippedWheat is paired with #6aecdd in 4 real palettes, including Mint Chip and Sorbet, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Light Coral #f08080
complementaryLight Coral sits directly opposite #6aecdd on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #6aecdd in 3 real palettes, including Canopy and Neon's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Light Pink #ffb6c1
shippedLight Pink is paired with #6aecdd in 3 real palettes, including Macaron and Pastel Pop, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #6aecdd
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #6aecdd as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.43:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 14.66:1 | 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 #6aecdd 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 #6aecdd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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