Rain Garden
Open in tool →Wet-leaf teal and moss with a soft peach — an overcast spring, calmer than the bright version and better for long reading.
Color
#a5caab
#a5caab
hex
#a5caabrgb
rgb(165, 202, 171)hsl
hsl(130, 26%, 72%)oklch
oklch(0.804 0.059 149.6)Closest name: Limestoned (#a7cca4)Relative luminance 0.5318
Colors that go with #a5caab
Charcoal, Plum 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 body-text near-black for #a5caab: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Plum #dda0dd
complementaryshippedPlum sits directly opposite #a5caab on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #a5caab, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #a5caab: 4 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Desert Road, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #a5caab in 4 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Olive Grove, as the lead colour.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #a5caab: 4 real palettes, including Max's brand system and Salesforce's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Eggplant #614051
shippedEggplant shows up next to #a5caab in 4 real palettes, including Sepia Mono and Bramble, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #a5caab in 5 real palettes, including Canopy and Pine & Birch, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #a5caab
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a5caab as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.8:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.64:1 | 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 #a5caab 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
#a5caab reads as muted, light, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #a5caab
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 #a5caab and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/a5caab-a2beaa-b14edf-1f2d28-ecf1e9?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