Color
#aef9dc
#aef9dcrgb(174, 249, 220)hsl(157, 86%, 83%)oklch(0.925 0.084 168.4)Colors that go with #aef9dc
Charcoal, Dark Turquoise and Emerald Green 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 #aef9dc: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Turquoise #00ced1
analogousshippedDark Turquoise is #aef9dc's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Emerald Green #50c878
analogousshippedEmerald Green is #aef9dc's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Light Coral #f08080
split-complementshippedLight Coral is a split-complement of #aef9dc: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Lilac #c8a2c8
triadicshippedLilac completes a triad with #aef9dc — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Plum #dda0dd
complementaryshippedPlum sits directly opposite #aef9dc on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped37 real palettes, including Dropbox's brand system and Alaska Airlines's brand system put Blue beside #aef9dc, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #aef9dc
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #aef9dc as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.21:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 17.38:1 | 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 #aef9dc 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
#aef9dc reads as vivid, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #aef9dc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/aef9dc-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.
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