Color

#80bcb5

#80bcb5
hex#80bcb5
rgbrgb(128, 188, 181)
hslhsl(173, 31%, 62%)
oklchoklch(0.752 0.063 186.8)
Closest name: Lichen (#8ebaa6)Relative luminance 0.4389

Colors that go with #80bcb5

Charcoal, Blue and Blush Pink 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 #80bcb5

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#bc8087

#80bc97 · #80a5bc

#b580bc · #bcb580

Split-complementary

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#bc80a5 · #bc9780

#9780bc · #bc8087 · #a5bc80

Contrast

#80bcb5 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.15:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #437f78 as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #315e58 as the text (7.31:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.68:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.05:1)
Aaon black
9.78:1passpasspassPasses 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 #80bcb5 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

mcpConnect your agent — build around #80bcb5
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 #80bcb5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/80bcb5-a2bebe-d459a3-1f292d-e9f1ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md