Color

#5ba5be

#5ba5be
hex#5ba5be
rgbrgb(91, 165, 190)
hslhsl(195, 43%, 55%)
oklchoklch(0.684 0.082 222.1)
Closest name: Frozen Wave (#56acca)Relative luminance 0.3285

Colors that go with #5ba5be

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 #5ba5be

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#be745b

#5bbea5 · #5b74be

#be5ba5 · #a5be5b

Split-complementary

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#be5b74 · #bea55b

#a55bbe · #be745b · #74be5b

Contrast

#5ba5be as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.77:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #3a7c92 as the text (4.69:1)
  • AAA: use #2c5d6d as the text (7.26:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0d0d0d (7.01:1)
Aaon black
7.57:1passpasspassPasses 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 #5ba5be 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

#5ba5be reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #5ba5be
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 #5ba5be and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/5ba5be-9cb5c4-df4e70-1f242d-e9f1ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md