Color
#a5b7bb
#a5b7bbrgb(165, 183, 187)hsl(191, 14%, 69%)oklch(0.767 0.021 212.6)Colors that go with #a5b7bb
Charcoal, Blue 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 that reads cleanly against #a5b7bb without the hard edge of pure #000.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Uber's brand system and Lexus's brand system put Blue beside #a5b7bb, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Bramble put Champagne beside #a5b7bb, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #a5b7bb: 6 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Riverbed, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #a5b7bb in 6 real palettes, including Cartier's brand system and Tiffany & Co.'s brand system, as the accent.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #a5b7bb: 6 real palettes, including Max's brand system and Calm's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #a5b7bb in 4 real palettes, including Pine & Birch and Desert Road, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped6 real palettes, including First Snow and Open House put Midnight Blue beside #a5b7bb, as the text colour against it.
Real palettes that use #a5b7bb
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a5b7bb as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.08:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10.09:1 | 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 #a5b7bb 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 #a5b7bb and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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