Color
#78c2dd
#78c2ddrgb(120, 194, 221)hsl(196, 60%, 67%)oklch(0.775 0.083 223.4)Colors that go with #78c2dd
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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #78c2dd: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
complementaryshippedDark Salmon sits directly opposite #78c2dd on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #78c2dd: 4 real palettes, including Coastal and Clean Beauty, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #78c2dd: 4 real palettes, including UEFA's brand system and Coca-Cola's brand system, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped8 real palettes, including Telehealth and First Snow put Midnight Blue beside #78c2dd, as the text colour against it.
Periwinkle #ccccff
shippedPeriwinkle shows up next to #78c2dd in 4 real palettes, including Mistral AI's brand system and Lavender Milk, as the accent.
Plum #dda0dd
triadicshippedPlum completes a triad with #78c2dd — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #78c2dd: 6 real palettes, including First Snow and Crypto.com's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #78c2dd
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #78c2dd as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.99:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10.56:1 | 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 #78c2dd 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
#78c2dd reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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 #78c2dd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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