Color
#73bab5
#73bab5rgb(115, 186, 181)hsl(176, 34%, 59%)oklch(0.741 0.072 190)Colors that go with #73bab5
Charcoal, Blue and Copper 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 #73bab5: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including Canva's brand system and Uber's brand system put Blue beside #73bab5, as the accent.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #73bab5: 5 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Riverbed, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #73bab5 in 5 real palettes, including Riot Games's brand system and Tiffany & Co.'s brand system, as the supporting colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #73bab5 in 5 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Undergrowth, as the supporting colour.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #73bab5: 4 real palettes, including Max's brand system and Snowflake AI Data Cloud's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #73bab5: 5 real palettes, including Open House and Coca-Cola's brand system, as the lead colour.
Plum #dda0dd
split-complementshippedPlum is a split-complement of #73bab5: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #73bab5
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #73bab5 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.23:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.42:1 | 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 #73bab5 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 #73bab5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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