Color

#7ca6ab

#7ca6ab
hex#7ca6ab
rgbrgb(124, 166, 171)
hslhsl(186, 22%, 58%)
oklchoklch(0.696 0.046 205.3)
Closest name: Pewter (#8ba8b7)Relative luminance 0.345

Colors that go with #7ca6ab

Charcoal, Burlywood and Champagne 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.

Real palettes that use #7ca6ab

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

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#ab817c

#7cab99 · #7c8fab

#ab7ca7 · #a7ab7c

Split-complementary

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#ab7c8f · #ab997c

#997cab · #ab817c · #8fab7c

Contrast

#7ca6ab as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.66:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #527b80 as the text (4.66:1)
  • AAA: use #3e5d60 as the text (7.14:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #121212 (7.05:1)
Aaon black
7.9:1passpasspassPasses 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 #7ca6ab as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

mcpConnect your agent — build around #7ca6ab
live endpoint

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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #7ca6ab and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/7ca6ab-a2b8be-df4e86-1f262d-e9f1ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md