Color

#72c4df

#72c4df
hex#72c4df
rgbrgb(114, 196, 223)
hslhsl(195, 63%, 66%)
oklchoklch(0.778 0.089 221.3)
Closest name: Dolphin (#86c4da)Relative luminance 0.4838

Colors that go with #72c4df

Charcoal, Dark Salmon and Cadet 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.

Real palettes that use #72c4df

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#df8d72

#72dfc4 · #728ddf

#df72c4 · #c4df72

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#df728d · #dfc472

#c472df · #df8d72 · #8ddf72

Contrast

#72c4df as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.97:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #247f9e as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #1a5e74 as the text (7.25:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4a4a4a (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (7.2:1)
Aaon black
10.68:1passpasspassPasses 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 #72c4df 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

#72c4df reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #72c4df
live endpoint

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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #72c4df and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/72c4df-9cb5c4-df4e70-1f242d-e9f1ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md