Color
#6cb9bc
#6cb9bcrgb(108, 185, 188)hsl(182, 37%, 58%)oklch(0.737 0.076 198.9)Colors that go with #6cb9bc
Charcoal, Dark Salmon and Dark Olive Green 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 #6cb9bc: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
complementaryshippedDark Salmon sits directly opposite #6cb9bc on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #6cb9bc in 5 real palettes, including Warp's brand system and Oatmeal, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #6cb9bc: 4 real palettes, including Open House and Coca-Cola's brand system, as the lead colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #6cb9bc: 4 real palettes, including Patreon's brand system and Opensea's brand system, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped7 real palettes, including First Snow and Open House put Midnight Blue beside #6cb9bc, as the text colour against it.
Mustard Yellow #ffdb58
shipped4 real palettes, including Crayon Box and Lido put Mustard Yellow beside #6cb9bc, as the accent.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #6cb9bc: 4 real palettes, including First Snow and Crypto.com's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #6cb9bc
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #6cb9bc as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.26:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.3:1 | 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 #6cb9bc 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
#6cb9bc 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 #6cb9bc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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