Color
#79d6dc
#79d6dcrgb(121, 214, 220)hsl(184, 59%, 67%)oklch(0.821 0.089 201)Colors that go with #79d6dc
Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and Dark Salmon 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 #79d6dc: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
analogousshippedDeep Sky Blue is #79d6dc's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
complementaryshippedDark Salmon sits directly opposite #79d6dc on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #79d6dc in 5 real palettes, including Tiffany & Co.'s brand system and Frost & Ember, as the supporting colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #79d6dc: 4 real palettes, including Opensea's brand system and Patreon's brand system, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped5 real palettes, including Telehealth and First Snow put Midnight Blue beside #79d6dc, as the text colour against it.
Plum #dda0dd
split-complementshippedPlum is a split-complement of #79d6dc: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped8 real palettes, including Still Water and Dusty Blue put Slate Gray beside #79d6dc, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #79d6dc
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #79d6dc as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.68:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 12.47:1 | 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 #79d6dc 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
#79d6dc reads as cool, modern. 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 #79d6dc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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