Harbour
Open in tool →Steel blue and haze with a buoy orange on a pale grey — the maritime palette every port town uses for a reason.
Color
#98c0cd
#98c0cd
hex
#98c0cdrgb
rgb(152, 192, 205)hsl
hsl(195, 35%, 70%)oklch
oklch(0.783 0.046 219.7)Closest name: Aquatic (#99c1cc)Relative luminance 0.4878
Colors that go with #98c0cd
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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #98c0cd: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
complementaryshippedDark Salmon sits directly opposite #98c0cd on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #98c0cd: 5 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Desert Road, as the accent.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #98c0cd: 7 real palettes, including Max's brand system and Calm's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #98c0cd: 5 real palettes, including Open House and Coca-Cola's brand system, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped6 real palettes, including Telehealth and First Snow put Midnight Blue beside #98c0cd, as the text colour against it.
Plum #dda0dd
triadicshippedPlum completes a triad with #98c0cd — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #98c0cd in 4 real palettes, including Telehealth and 1password's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #98c0cd
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #98c0cd as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.95:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10.76:1 | 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 #98c0cd as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#98c0cd reads as cool, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #98c0cd
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 #98c0cd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/98c0cd-9cb5c4-df4e70-1f242d-e9f1ef?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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