Color

#73b5bf

#73b5bf
hex#73b5bf
rgbrgb(115, 181, 191)
hslhsl(188, 37%, 60%)
oklchoklch(0.733 0.069 207.9)
Closest name: Blue Eye Samurai (#75aebd)Relative luminance 0.4045

Colors that go with #73b5bf

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.

Real palettes that use #73b5bf

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#bf7d73

#73bfa3 · #738fbf

#bf73b5 · #b5bf73

Split-complementary

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#bf738f · #bfa373

#a373bf · #bf7d73 · #8fbf73

Contrast

#73b5bf as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.31:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #3f7e88 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #2f5e65 as the text (7.22:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.7:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1f1f1f (7.14:1)
Aaon black
9.09:1passpasspassPasses 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 #73b5bf 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

#73b5bf reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #73b5bf
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 #73b5bf and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/73b5bf-a2b7be-df4e81-1f252d-e9f1ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md