Riverbed
Open in tool →Wet-stone green and pebble grey with a copper accent — an earth palette that leans cool, for outdoor and wellness.
Color
#a5a197
#a5a197
hex
#a5a197rgb
rgb(165, 161, 151)hsl
hsl(43, 7%, 62%)oklch
oklch(0.709 0.015 88.7)Closest name: Moorland (#a6ab9b)Relative luminance 0.3572
Colors that go with #a5a197
Charcoal, Blush Pink and Burlywood 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 that reads cleanly against #a5a197 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Garden Wedding and Estate put Blush Pink beside #a5a197, as the supporting colour.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #a5a197 in 4 real palettes, including Polaroid and Chalkboard, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Darkroom and Bramble put Champagne beside #a5a197, as the surface under it.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #a5a197: 8 real palettes, including Riverbed and Bakery, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #a5a197 in 6 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Olive Grove, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #a5a197 in 5 real palettes, including Darkroom and Pine & Birch, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped4 real palettes, including Open House and First Snow put Midnight Blue beside #a5a197, as the text colour against it.
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a5a197 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.58:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.14:1 | 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 #a5a197 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
Fonts for this mood
#a5a197 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #a5a197
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 #a5a197 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/a5a197-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?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