Color
#81bdca
#81bdcargb(129, 189, 202)hsl(191, 41%, 65%)oklch(0.762 0.064 212.7)Colors that go with #81bdca
Charcoal, Dark Salmon and Copper 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 #81bdca: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
complementaryshippedDark Salmon sits directly opposite #81bdca on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #81bdca: 4 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Riverbed, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #81bdca: 4 real palettes, including Open House and Coca-Cola's brand system, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped7 real palettes, including First Snow and Open House put Midnight Blue beside #81bdca, as the text colour against it.
Periwinkle #ccccff
shippedPeriwinkle shows up next to #81bdca in 4 real palettes, including Lavender Milk and Mistral AI's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Plum #dda0dd
triadicshippedPlum completes a triad with #81bdca — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #81bdca: 6 real palettes, including First Snow and Crypto.com's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #81bdca
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #81bdca as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.09:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10.07:1 | 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 #81bdca as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Fonts for this mood
#81bdca reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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 #81bdca and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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