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
#96bfcf
#96bfcf
hex
#96bfcfrgb
rgb(150, 191, 207)hsl
hsl(197, 37%, 70%)oklch
oklch(0.78 0.049 223.7)Closest name: Aquatic (#99c1cc)Relative luminance 0.4825
Colors that go with #96bfcf
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 #96bfcf: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
complementaryshippedDark Salmon sits directly opposite #96bfcf on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #96bfcf in 5 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Riverbed, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDeep Sky Blue is paired with #96bfcf in 6 real palettes, including Max's brand system and Calm's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #96bfcf in 5 real palettes, including Open House and Coca-Cola'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 #96bfcf in 7 real palettes, including First Snow and Telehealth, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #96bfcf in 6 real palettes, including Telehealth and 1password's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Slate Gray #708090
shippedSlate Gray is paired with #96bfcf in 10 real palettes, including Still Water and Midnight Luxe, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #96bfcf
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #96bfcf as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.97:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10.65:1 | 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 #96bfcf as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#96bfcf reads as cool, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #96bfcf
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 #96bfcf and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/96bfcf-9cb4c4-df4e6b-1f232d-e9f1ef?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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