Pastel Pop
Open in tool →Pastels pushed to the saturated end — pink, sky and lemon — for brands that want soft AND loud.
Color
#90d2ee
#90d2ee
hex
#90d2eergb
rgb(144, 210, 238)hsl
hsl(198, 73%, 75%)oklch
oklch(0.829 0.077 226.4)Closest name: Sky Blue (#87ceeb)Relative luminance 0.582
Colors that go with #90d2ee
Charcoal, Dark Salmon and Deep Sky 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 #90d2ee: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
complementaryshippedDark Salmon sits directly opposite #90d2ee on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDeep Sky Blue is paired with #90d2ee in 8 real palettes, including Salesforce's brand system and Max's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #90d2ee in 6 real palettes, including Telehealth and Blue Mono, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Plum #dda0dd
triadicshippedPlum completes a triad with #90d2ee — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Slate Gray #708090
shippedSlate Gray is paired with #90d2ee in 8 real palettes, including Still Water and Dusty Blue, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #90d2ee in 24 real palettes, including Boeing's brand system and Macaron, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Wheat #f5deb3
shippedWheat is paired with #90d2ee in 4 real palettes, including Oatly's brand system and Still Water, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #90d2ee
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #90d2ee as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.66:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 12.64:1 | 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 #90d2ee as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#90d2ee reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #90d2ee
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 #90d2ee and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/90d2ee-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.
Machine-readable: color.md