Color
#81bbb9
#81bbb9rgb(129, 187, 185)hsl(178, 30%, 62%)oklch(0.752 0.06 193.2)Colors that go with #81bbb9
Charcoal, Dark Salmon and Blue 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 #81bbb9: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
complementaryshippedDark Salmon sits directly opposite #81bbb9 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped6 real palettes, including Canva's brand system and Uber's brand system put Blue beside #81bbb9, as the accent.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Garden Wedding and Rain Garden put Blush Pink beside #81bbb9, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Forest Floor put Champagne beside #81bbb9, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #81bbb9: 5 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Riverbed, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #81bbb9 in 4 real palettes, including Tiffany & Co.'s brand system and Riot Games's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #81bbb9 in 5 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Olive Grove, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #81bbb9
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #81bbb9 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.16:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.74:1 | 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 #81bbb9 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 #81bbb9 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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