Color

#81bbb3

#81bbb3
hex#81bbb3
rgbrgb(129, 187, 179)
hslhsl(172, 30%, 62%)
oklchoklch(0.75 0.061 185.2)
Closest name: Lichen (#8ebaa6)Relative luminance 0.4346

Colors that go with #81bbb3

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 #81bbb3

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#bb8189

#81bb96 · #81a6bb

#b381bb · #bbb381

Split-complementary

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#bb81a6 · #bb9681

#9681bb · #bb8189 · #a6bb81

Contrast

#81bbb3 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.17:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #447e76 as the text (4.68:1)
  • AAA: use #34605a as the text (7.08:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.64:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #242424 (7.16:1)
Aaon black
9.69:1passpasspassPasses 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 #81bbb3 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 #81bbb3
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 #81bbb3 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/81bbb3-a2bebe-d459a5-1f292d-e9f1ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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