Color

#5ba2b3

#5ba2b3
hex#5ba2b3
rgbrgb(91, 162, 179)
hslhsl(192, 37%, 53%)
oklchoklch(0.672 0.076 215)
Closest name: Atlas Cedar (#5ca0a7)Relative luminance 0.3132

Colors that go with #5ba2b3

Charcoal, Terracotta and Amber 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 #5ba2b3

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#b36d5b

#5bb399 · #5b75b3

#b35ba2 · #a2b35b

Split-complementary

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#b35b75 · #b3995b

#995bb3 · #b36d5b · #75b35b

Contrast

#5ba2b3 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.89:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #407d8c as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #305d69 as the text (7.25:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.57:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #050505 (7.05:1)
Aaon black
7.26:1passpasspassPasses 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 #5ba2b3 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

#5ba2b3 reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #5ba2b3
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 #5ba2b3 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/5ba2b3-a2b5be-df4e77-1f242d-e9f1ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md