Harbour
Open in tool →Steel blue and haze with a buoy orange on a pale grey — the maritime palette every port town uses for a reason.
Color
#89c3dc
#89c3dc
hex
#89c3dcrgb
rgb(137, 195, 220)hsl
hsl(198, 54%, 70%)oklch
oklch(0.786 0.07 226.7)Closest name: Dolphin (#86c4da)Relative luminance 0.4952
Colors that go with #89c3dc
Charcoal, Dark Salmon and Crimson 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 #89c3dc: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
complementaryshippedDark Salmon sits directly opposite #89c3dc on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #89c3dc in 4 real palettes, including Riot Games's brand system and Frost & Ember, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #89c3dc: 6 real palettes, including UEFA's brand system and Coca-Cola's brand system, as the accent.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #89c3dc: 4 real palettes, including Opensea's brand system and Patreon's brand system, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped7 real palettes, including Telehealth and Lavender Milk put Midnight Blue beside #89c3dc, as the text colour against it.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #89c3dc in 6 real palettes, including Telehealth and 1password's brand system, as the lead colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped9 real palettes, including Still Water and Dusty Blue put Slate Gray beside #89c3dc, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #89c3dc
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #89c3dc as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.93:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10.9:1 | 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 #89c3dc as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#89c3dc reads as cool, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #89c3dc
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #89c3dc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/89c3dc-9cb3c4-df4e69-1f232d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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