Color
#96c5be
#96c5bergb(150, 197, 190)hsl(171, 29%, 68%)oklch(0.788 0.05 185)Colors that go with #96c5be
Charcoal, Champagne 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 #96c5be: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Bramble put Champagne beside #96c5be, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #96c5be: 4 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Desert Road, as the accent.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #96c5be: 5 real palettes, including Max's brand system and Salesforce's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #96c5be: 4 real palettes, including Open House and UEFA's brand system, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #96c5be in 4 real palettes, including Canopy and Pine & Birch, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped6 real palettes, including First Snow and Telehealth put Midnight Blue beside #96c5be, as the text colour against it.
Plum #dda0dd
split-complementshippedPlum is a split-complement of #96c5be: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #96c5be
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #96c5be as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.9:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.03:1 | 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 #96c5be 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 #96c5be and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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