Color

#a1c4bd

#a1c4bd
hex#a1c4bd
rgbrgb(161, 196, 189)
hslhsl(168, 23%, 70%)
oklchoklch(0.793 0.039 181.8)
Closest name: Continental Waters (#98c6cb)Relative luminance 0.5073

Colors that go with #a1c4bd

Charcoal, Lilac and Blue 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#c4a1a8

#a1c4ab · #a1bac4

#bda1c4 · #c4bda1

Split-complementary

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#c4a1ba · #c4aba1

#aba1c4 · #c4a1a8 · #bac4a1

Contrast

#a1c4bd as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.88:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #4f7d74 as the text (4.65:1)
  • AAA: use #3b5e57 as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4a4a4a (4.7:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #303030 (7.01:1)
Aaon black
11.15:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a1c4bd 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

#a1c4bd reads as muted, light, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a1c4bd
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 #a1c4bd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a1c4bd-a2bebc-d459ad-1f2a2d-e9f1ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md