Coastal
Open in tool →Sea-teal, sky and sand — bright without shouting; works for travel, wellness, and anything near water.
Color
#89caebrgb(137, 202, 235)hsl(200, 71%, 73%)oklch(0.807 0.081 231.1)Charcoal, Dark Salmon and Denim 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 is the text near-black for #89caeb: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Salmon sits directly opposite #89caeb on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Designers have shipped Denim with #89caeb: 4 real palettes, including UEFA's brand system and Coca-Cola's brand system, as the accent.
6 real palettes, including Telehealth and Lavender Milk put Midnight Blue beside #89caeb, as the text colour against it.
Plum completes a triad with #89caeb — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Royal Blue is paired with #89caeb in 4 real palettes, including Telehealth and 1password's brand system, as the lead colour.
8 real palettes, including Still Water and Dusty Blue put Slate Gray beside #89caeb, as the lead colour.
Taupe is paired with #89caeb in 25 real palettes, including Boeing's brand system and Raycast's brand system, as the text colour against it.
| #89caeb as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.79:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.71:1 | 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 #89caeb as the background.
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
#89caeb reads as cool, vivid, light. 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 #89caeb and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/89caeb-9cb2c4-df4e64-1f232d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md