Color

#a5bbb0

#a5bbb0
hex#a5bbb0
rgbrgb(165, 187, 176)
hslhsl(150, 14%, 69%)
oklchoklch(0.772 0.029 164.1)
Closest name: Alpine Air (#a9b4a9)Relative luminance 0.4667

Colors that go with #a5bbb0

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.

Real palettes that use #a5bbb0

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#bba5b0

#a5bba5 · #a5bbbb

#b0a5bb · #bbb0a5

Split-complementary

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#bba5bb · #bba5a5

#a5a5bb · #bba5b0 · #bbbba5

Contrast

#a5bbb0 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.03:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #5e7d6e as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #465d52 as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #474747 (4.57:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #292929 (7.16:1)
Aaon black
10.33:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a5bbb0 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a5bbb0
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 #a5bbb0 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a5bbb0-a2beb3-d459d2-1f2d2c-e9f1ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md