Color
#5aa085
#5aa085rgb(90, 160, 133)hsl(157, 28%, 49%)oklch(0.652 0.083 167)Colors that go with #5aa085
Charcoal, Blue and Blush Pink 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 #5aa085: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including Unity's brand system and Kia's brand system put Blue beside #5aa085, as the supporting colour.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Rain Garden and Estate put Blush Pink beside #5aa085, as the accent.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #5aa085: 6 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Wellness, as the accent.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedDesigners have shipped Cornflower Blue with #5aa085: 4 real palettes, including Arctic and Terminal, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #5aa085 in 6 real palettes, including Diner and DuckDuckGo's brand system, as the lead colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #5aa085 in 5 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Forest Floor, as the supporting colour.
Pale Violet Red #db7093
complementaryPale Violet Red sits directly opposite #5aa085 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #5aa085
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #5aa085 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.09:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.8:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #5aa085 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
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 #5aa085 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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