Coastal
Open in tool →Sea-teal, sky and sand — bright without shouting; works for travel, wellness, and anything near water.
Color
#96caed
#96caed
hex
#96caedrgb
rgb(150, 202, 237)hsl
hsl(204, 71%, 76%)oklch
oklch(0.815 0.073 238.3)Closest name: Below Zero (#87cded)Relative luminance 0.5484
Colors that go with #96caed
Charcoal, Sandy Brown 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 #96caed: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Sandy Brown #f4a460
complementaryshippedSandy Brown sits directly opposite #96caed 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
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #96caed: 7 real palettes, including Max's brand system and Salesforce's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #96caed: 4 real palettes, including UEFA's brand system and Nikon's brand system, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped7 real palettes, including Telehealth and Lavender Milk put Midnight Blue beside #96caed, as the text colour against it.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #96caed in 4 real palettes, including Telehealth and 1password's brand system, as the lead colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped8 real palettes, including Still Water and Dusty Blue put Slate Gray beside #96caed, as the lead colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #96caed in 24 real palettes, including Boeing's brand system and Raycast's brand system, as the text colour against it.
Real palettes that use #96caed
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #96caed as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.75:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.97:1 | 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 #96caed as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#96caed reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #96caed
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 #96caed and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/96caed-9cafc4-df4e5a-1f222d-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