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
#96bfdf
#96bfdf
hex
#96bfdfrgb
rgb(150, 191, 223)hsl
hsl(206, 53%, 73%)oklch
oklch(0.786 0.063 242.1)Closest name: Double Denim (#95bce1)Relative luminance 0.4907
Colors that go with #96bfdf
Charcoal, Dark Salmon and 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 #96bfdf: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
complementaryshippedDark Salmon sits directly opposite #96bfdf on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Uber's brand system and Warp's brand system put Blue beside #96bfdf, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #96bfdf: 5 real palettes, including Coca-Cola's brand system and Open House, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped6 real palettes, including Telehealth and Lavender Milk put Midnight Blue beside #96bfdf, as the text colour against it.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #96bfdf in 5 real palettes, including Telehealth and 1password's brand system, as the lead colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped10 real palettes, including Still Water and Midnight Luxe put Slate Gray beside #96bfdf, as the lead colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #96bfdf in 28 real palettes, including Raycast's brand system and Still Water, as the text colour against it.
Real palettes that use #96bfdf
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #96bfdf as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.94:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10.81:1 | 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 #96bfdf as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#96bfdf reads as cool, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #96bfdf
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 #96bfdf and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/96bfdf-9caec4-df4e56-1f212d-e9f1f1?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