Color
#5cbca9
#5cbca9rgb(92, 188, 169)hsl(168, 42%, 55%)oklch(0.731 0.096 178.8)Colors that go with #5cbca9
Charcoal, Dark Olive Green and Denim 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 #5cbca9: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #5cbca9 in 4 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Forest Floor, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #5cbca9: 4 real palettes, including Open House and UEFA's brand system, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped6 real palettes, including Confluent's brand system and Ford's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #5cbca9, as the lead colour.
Mustard Yellow #ffdb58
shipped5 real palettes, including Crayon Box and Fresh Juice put Mustard Yellow beside #5cbca9, as the accent.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #5cbca9 in 4 real palettes, including Brilliant's brand system and Khan Academy's brand system, as the accent.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped9 real palettes, including Indigo SaaS and Ledger Dark put Slate Gray beside #5cbca9, as the supporting colour.
Pale Violet Red #db7093
complementaryPale Violet Red sits directly opposite #5cbca9 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 #5cbca9
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #5cbca9 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.28:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.22:1 | 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 #5cbca9 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 #5cbca9 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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