Color
#71dbe5
#71dbe5rgb(113, 219, 229)hsl(185, 69%, 67%)oklch(0.832 0.099 203.6)Colors that go with #71dbe5
Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and Dark Salmon 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 #71dbe5: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
analogousshippedDeep Sky Blue is #71dbe5's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
complementaryshippedDark Salmon sits directly opposite #71dbe5 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 #71dbe5 in 4 real palettes, including Opensea's brand system and Patreon's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Plum #dda0dd
split-complementshippedPlum is a split-complement of #71dbe5: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Slate Gray #708090
shippedSlate Gray is paired with #71dbe5 in 6 real palettes, including Still Water and Dusty Blue, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #71dbe5 in 19 real palettes, including Boeing's brand system and Mint Chip, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Tomato #ff6347
shippedTomato is paired with #71dbe5 in 4 real palettes, including Crayon Box and Raycast's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #71dbe5
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #71dbe5 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.62:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 12.97:1 | 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 #71dbe5 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
#71dbe5 reads as cool, vivid, technical. 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 #71dbe5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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