Still Water
Open in tool →Dusty teal and mist with a sand accent — low chroma, low contrast between colours, high contrast for text: the recipe for calm.
Color
#a5c0bf
#a5c0bf
hex
#a5c0bfrgb
rgb(165, 192, 191)hsl
hsl(178, 18%, 70%)oklch
oklch(0.787 0.029 193.8)Closest name: Aquatic (#99c1cc)Relative luminance 0.4946
Colors that go with #a5c0bf
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 #a5c0bf without the hard edge of pure #000.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Uber's brand system and League of Legends's brand system put Blue beside #a5c0bf, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Bramble put Champagne beside #a5c0bf, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #a5c0bf: 5 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Desert Road, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #a5c0bf in 5 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 #a5c0bf: 5 real palettes, including Max's brand system and Calm's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #a5c0bf: 7 real palettes, including Open House and Nikon's brand system, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #a5c0bf in 4 real palettes, including Canopy and Pine & Birch, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #a5c0bf
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a5c0bf as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.93:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10.89:1 | 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 #a5c0bf 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
#a5c0bf reads as muted, light, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #a5c0bf
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 #a5c0bf and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/a5c0bf-a2bcbe-d45999-1f282d-e9f1ed?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