Color
#72cab5
#72cab5rgb(114, 202, 181)hsl(166, 45%, 62%)oklch(0.778 0.091 176.6)Colors that go with #72cab5
Charcoal, Crimson and Deep Sky 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #72cab5: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #72cab5 in 4 real palettes, including Tiffany & Co.'s brand system and Riot Games's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #72cab5: 4 real palettes, including Max's brand system and Salesforce's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #72cab5 in 4 real palettes, including Canopy and Neon's brand system, as the lead colour.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #72cab5: 4 real palettes, including Crypto.com's brand system and First Snow, as the supporting colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #72cab5 in 4 real palettes, including Docker's brand system and Brilliant's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped10 real palettes, including Ledger Dark and Still Water put Slate Gray beside #72cab5, as the supporting colour.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryLilac sits directly opposite #72cab5 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #72cab5
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #72cab5 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.94:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10.83:1 | 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 #72cab5 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 #72cab5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/72cab5-a2bebb-d459b1-1f2a2d-e9f1ec?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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