Color
#96c5ae
#96c5aergb(150, 197, 174)hsl(151, 29%, 68%)oklch(0.784 0.059 163.5)Colors that go with #96c5ae
Charcoal, Blue and Champagne 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 #96c5ae: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including Uber's brand system and Canva's brand system put Blue beside #96c5ae, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Bramble put Champagne beside #96c5ae, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #96c5ae: 4 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Desert Road, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #96c5ae in 4 real palettes, including Tiffany & Co.'s brand system and Frost & Ember, as the supporting colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #96c5ae in 4 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Olive Grove, as the supporting colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #96c5ae in 5 real palettes, including Canopy and Pine & Birch, as the lead colour.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryLilac sits directly opposite #96c5ae on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #96c5ae
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #96c5ae as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.93:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10.89:1 | 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 #96c5ae as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
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 #96c5ae and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/96c5ae-a2beb4-d459d0-1f2d2c-e9f1ea?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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