Color
#5cb2af
#5cb2afrgb(92, 178, 175)hsl(178, 36%, 53%)oklch(0.709 0.083 192.4)Colors that go with #5cb2af
Charcoal, Dark Olive Green and Midnight 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 #5cb2af: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green is paired with #5cb2af in 4 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Forest Floor, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #5cb2af in 4 real palettes, including Open House and First Snow, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Mustard Yellow #ffdb58
shippedMustard Yellow is paired with #5cb2af in 4 real palettes, including Lido and Crayon Box, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Slate Gray #708090
shippedSlate Gray is paired with #5cb2af in 7 real palettes, including Graphite and Indigo SaaS, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #5cb2af in 17 real palettes, including Resort and Polaroid, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Terracotta #e2725b
split-complementshippedTerracotta is a split-complement of #5cb2af: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Wheat #f5deb3
shippedWheat is paired with #5cb2af in 4 real palettes, including Resort and Pine & Birch, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #5cb2af
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #5cb2af as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.49:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.44:1 | 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 #5cb2af 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 #5cb2af and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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