Color
#5ea9c5
#5ea9c5rgb(94, 169, 197)hsl(196, 47%, 57%)oklch(0.697 0.085 224.5)Colors that go with #5ea9c5
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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #5ea9c5: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Terracotta #e2725b
complementaryshippedTerracotta sits directly opposite #5ea9c5 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #5ea9c5 in 5 real palettes, including Blueprint and Salesforce's brand system, as the accent.
Dark Orange #ff8c00
shippedDark Orange shows up next to #5ea9c5 in 4 real palettes, including Elastic's brand system and Learning App, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #5ea9c5: 7 real palettes, including Coca-Cola's brand system and Open House, as the accent.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #5ea9c5: 5 real palettes, including Patreon's brand system and Venmo's brand system, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped9 real palettes, including Confluent's brand system and SoFi's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #5ea9c5, as the lead colour.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #5ea9c5: 5 real palettes, including First Snow and Crypto.com's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #5ea9c5
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #5ea9c5 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.64:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.96:1 | 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 #5ea9c5 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
#5ea9c5 reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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 #5ea9c5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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