Color
#72c0aa
#72c0aargb(114, 192, 170)hsl(163, 38%, 60%)oklch(0.751 0.084 173.9)Colors that go with #72c0aa
Charcoal, Copper 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 #72c0aa: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #72c0aa: 4 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Riverbed, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #72c0aa in 4 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Forest Floor, as the supporting colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #72c0aa in 4 real palettes, including Pine & Birch and Canopy, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped5 real palettes, including Open House and First Snow put Midnight Blue beside #72c0aa, as the text colour against it.
Mustard Yellow #ffdb58
shipped5 real palettes, including Crayon Box and Fresh Juice put Mustard Yellow beside #72c0aa, as the accent.
Plum #dda0dd
split-complementshippedPlum is a split-complement of #72c0aa: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #72c0aa in 4 real palettes, including Brilliant's brand system and Khan Academy's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #72c0aa
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #72c0aa as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.14:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.84:1 | 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 #72c0aa 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 #72c0aa and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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