Color
#5cb7ae
#5cb7aergb(92, 183, 174)hsl(174, 39%, 54%)oklch(0.721 0.088 186.9)Colors that go with #5cb7ae
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 #5cb7ae: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green is paired with #5cb7ae in 5 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 #5cb7ae 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 #5cb7ae in 4 real palettes, including Crayon Box and Lido, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Slate Gray #708090
shippedSlate Gray is paired with #5cb7ae in 8 real palettes, including Indigo SaaS and Graphite, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #5cb7ae in 21 real palettes, including Resort and Polaroid, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Wheat #f5deb3
shippedWheat is paired with #5cb7ae in 5 real palettes, including Resort and Pine & Birch, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Light Coral #f08080
complementaryLight Coral sits directly opposite #5cb7ae 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 #5cb7ae
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #5cb7ae as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.38:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.84:1 | 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 #5cb7ae 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 #5cb7ae and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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