Color

#97c5ce

#97c5ce
hex#97c5ce
rgbrgb(151, 197, 206)
hslhsl(190, 36%, 70%)
oklchoklch(0.794 0.05 210.9)
Closest name: Continental Waters (#98c6cb)Relative luminance 0.5097

Colors that go with #97c5ce

Charcoal, Dark Salmon 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.

Real palettes that use #97c5ce

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

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#cea097

#97cebc · #97a9ce

#ce97c5 · #c5ce97

Split-complementary

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#ce97a9 · #cebc97

#bc97ce · #cea097 · #a9ce97

Contrast

#97c5ce as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.88:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #417e8b as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #315f68 as the text (7.08:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4d4d4d (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #303030 (7.03:1)
Aaon black
11.19:1passpasspassPasses 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 #97c5ce as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Fonts for this mood

#97c5ce reads as cool, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #97c5ce
live endpoint

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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #97c5ce and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/97c5ce-a2b6be-df4e7c-1f252d-e9f1ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md