Alpine
Open in tool →Glacier blue with a safety-orange accent: technical outdoor gear, not lifestyle.
Color
#76a5bc
#76a5bc
hex
#76a5bcrgb
rgb(118, 165, 188)hsl
hsl(200, 34%, 60%)oklch
oklch(0.697 0.061 229.8)Closest name: Blue Eye Samurai (#75aebd)Relative luminance 0.3439
Colors that go with #76a5bc
Charcoal, Peru 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 #76a5bc: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Peru #cd853f
complementaryshippedPeru sits directly opposite #76a5bc 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 #76a5bc in 5 real palettes, including NBA's brand system and Blueprint, as the lead colour.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #76a5bc in 4 real palettes, including Polaroid and Chalkboard, as the accent.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #76a5bc: 4 real palettes, including Dusk and Riverbed, as the accent.
Dark Orange #ff8c00
shippedDark Orange shows up next to #76a5bc in 4 real palettes, including Elastic's brand system and Learning App, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #76a5bc: 5 real palettes, including Open House and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #76a5bc: 5 real palettes, including Studio Grey and Patreon's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #76a5bc
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #76a5bc as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.67:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.88:1 | 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 #76a5bc as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
mcpConnect your agent — build around #76a5bc
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #76a5bc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/76a5bc-9cb2c4-df4e64-1f232d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md