Coastal
Open in tool →Sea-teal, sky and sand — bright without shouting; works for travel, wellness, and anything near water.
Color
#96cdde
#96cdde
hex
#96cddergb
rgb(150, 205, 222)hsl
hsl(194, 52%, 73%)oklch
oklch(0.816 0.062 218.9)Closest name: Sky Blue (#87ceeb)Relative luminance 0.5542
Colors that go with #96cdde
Charcoal, Dark Salmon and Crimson 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 #96cdde: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
complementaryshippedDark Salmon sits directly opposite #96cdde on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #96cdde in 5 real palettes, including Frost & Ember and Tiffany & Co.'s brand system, as the accent.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #96cdde: 7 real palettes, including Max's brand system and Salesforce's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #96cdde: 6 real palettes, including UEFA's brand system and Nikon's brand system, as the accent.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #96cdde: 4 real palettes, including Opensea's brand system and Patreon's brand system, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped7 real palettes, including Telehealth and First Snow put Midnight Blue beside #96cdde, as the text colour against it.
Plum #dda0dd
triadicshippedPlum completes a triad with #96cdde — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Real palettes that use #96cdde
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #96cdde as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.74:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 12.08:1 | 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 #96cdde as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#96cdde reads as cool, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #96cdde
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 #96cdde and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/96cdde-9cb6c4-df4e72-1f242d-e9f1ef?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