Coastal
Open in tool →Sea-teal, sky and sand — bright without shouting; works for travel, wellness, and anything near water.
Color
#7bc9ea
#7bc9ea
hex
#7bc9eargb
rgb(123, 201, 234)hsl
hsl(198, 73%, 70%)oklch
oklch(0.798 0.09 227)Closest name: Below Zero (#87cded)Relative luminance 0.5192
Colors that go with #7bc9ea
Charcoal, Dark Salmon and Denim 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 #7bc9ea: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
complementaryshippedDark Salmon sits directly opposite #7bc9ea on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #7bc9ea: 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 Lavender Milk put Midnight Blue beside #7bc9ea, as the text colour against it.
Plum #dda0dd
triadicshippedPlum completes a triad with #7bc9ea — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #7bc9ea in 6 real palettes, including Telehealth and 1password's brand system, as the lead colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped7 real palettes, including Still Water and Dusty Blue put Slate Gray beside #7bc9ea, as the lead colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #7bc9ea in 23 real palettes, including Boeing's brand system and Raycast's brand system, as the text colour against it.
Real palettes that use #7bc9ea
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #7bc9ea as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.84:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.38:1 | 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 #7bc9ea as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#7bc9ea reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #7bc9ea
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #7bc9ea and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/7bc9ea-9cb3c4-df4e69-1f232d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md