Mint Chip
Open in tool →Mint and celadon with a peach accent — fresh without being clinical; the deep green text keeps it grounded.
Color
#96d4bc
#96d4bc
hex
#96d4bcrgb
rgb(150, 212, 188)hsl
hsl(157, 42%, 71%)oklch
oklch(0.821 0.072 168.5)Closest name: Cabbage (#87d7be)Relative luminance 0.572
Colors that go with #96d4bc
Charcoal, Lilac 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 #96d4bc: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #96d4bc 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 #96d4bc in 4 real palettes, including Frost & Ember and Cartier's brand system, as the accent.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #96d4bc: 6 real palettes, including Salesforce's brand system and Astro's brand system, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #96d4bc in 4 real palettes, including Canopy and Pine & Birch, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped5 real palettes, including First Snow and Allbirds's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #96d4bc, as the text colour against it.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #96d4bc: 4 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Stone, as the supporting colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped10 real palettes, including Still Water and Dusty Blue put Slate Gray beside #96d4bc, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #96d4bc
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #96d4bc as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.69:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 12.44:1 | 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 #96d4bc 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
#96d4bc reads as light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #96d4bc
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 #96d4bc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/96d4bc-a2beb7-d459c4-1f2c2d-e9f1ea?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