Color
#a1a5ce
#a1a5cergb(161, 165, 206)hsl(235, 31%, 72%)oklch(0.733 0.059 280.5)Colors that go with #a1a5ce
Charcoal, Sand and Dark Orange 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 #a1a5ce: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Sand #c2b280
complementaryshippedSand sits directly opposite #a1a5ce on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Dark Orange #ff8c00
shippedDark Orange shows up next to #a1a5ce in 4 real palettes, including Ahrefs's brand system and PayPal's brand system, as the lead colour.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #a1a5ce: 4 real palettes, including Calm's brand system and Max's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #a1a5ce: 4 real palettes, including Open House and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #a1a5ce: 4 real palettes, including Opensea's brand system and Patreon's brand system, as the lead colour.
Emerald Green #50c878
shippedEmerald Green is paired with #a1a5ce in 4 real palettes, including Supabase's brand system and Ledger Dark, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped7 real palettes, including First Snow and Open House put Midnight Blue beside #a1a5ce, as the text colour against it.
Real palettes that use #a1a5ce
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a1a5ce as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.39:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.79:1 | 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 #a1a5ce 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
#a1a5ce reads as cool, muted, light. 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 #a1a5ce and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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