Arcade
Open in tool →Hot pink, cyan and acid yellow on near-black — cabinet-glow neon; the black surface is what makes the colours light up.
Named color
Aqua
#0ff0fe
hex
#0ff0fergb
rgb(15, 240, 254)hsl
hsl(184, 99%, 53%)oklch
oklch(0.87 0.147 202.4)Relative luminance 0.6958
Aqua on this page is the real value, not a screenshot: exact hex, RGB, HSL and OKLCH, ten tints and ten shades, classic harmonies, and WCAG contrast with fixes — plus the curated palettes it appears in and any public brand that adopts it.
Colors that go with Aqua
Charcoal, Crimson and Deep Sky Blue 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 Aqua: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with Aqua in 4 real palettes, including Formula 1's brand system and Tiffany & Co.'s brand system, as the supporting colour.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
analogousshippedDeep Sky Blue is Aqua's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with Aqua in 7 real palettes, including Astro's brand system and Boeing's brand system, as the text colour against it.
Light Coral #f08080
complementaryLight Coral sits directly opposite Aqua on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Dark Orange #ff8c00
split-complementshippedDark Orange is a split-complement of Aqua: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Light Pink #ffb6c1
shippedLight Pink shows up next to Aqua in 3 real palettes, including Macaron and Pastel Pop, as the lead colour.
Hot Pink #ff69b4
split-complementHot Pink is a split-complement of Aqua: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use Aqua
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| Aqua as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.41:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 14.92:1 | 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 Aqua 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
Aqua reads as cool, vivid, technical. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around Aqua
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 #0ff0fe and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/0ff0fe-a2b9be-df4e8a-1f262d-e9f1ee?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