Color
#80cbba
#80cbbargb(128, 203, 186)hsl(166, 42%, 65%)oklch(0.788 0.079 178.1)Colors that go with #80cbba
Charcoal, Crimson and Dark Olive Green 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 #80cbba: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #80cbba in 5 real palettes, including Tiffany & Co.'s brand system and Frost & Ember, as the supporting colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #80cbba in 4 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Oatmeal, as the supporting colour.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #80cbba: 4 real palettes, including Max's brand system and Salesforce's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #80cbba in 4 real palettes, including Canopy and Pine & Birch, as the lead colour.
Plum #dda0dd
split-complementshippedPlum is a split-complement of #80cbba: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #80cbba in 5 real palettes, including Brilliant's brand system and Docker's brand system, as the accent.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped11 real palettes, including Still Water and Graphite Mono put Slate Gray beside #80cbba, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #80cbba
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #80cbba as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.88:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.17:1 | 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 #80cbba 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 #80cbba and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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