Color
#7cb5bb
#7cb5bbrgb(124, 181, 187)hsl(186, 32%, 61%)oklch(0.736 0.06 204.2)Colors that go with #7cb5bb
Charcoal, Dark Salmon 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #7cb5bb: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
complementaryshippedDark Salmon sits directly opposite #7cb5bb on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedChampagne is paired with #7cb5bb in 4 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Forest Floor, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #7cb5bb in 5 real palettes, including Riverbed and Dusk, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green is paired with #7cb5bb in 4 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Olive Grove, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #7cb5bb in 4 real palettes, including Pine & Birch and Canopy, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #7cb5bb in 5 real palettes, including First Snow and Open House, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Slate Gray #708090
shippedSlate Gray is paired with #7cb5bb in 10 real palettes, including Graphite and Still Water, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #7cb5bb
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #7cb5bb as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.29:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.18:1 | 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 #7cb5bb 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 #7cb5bb and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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