Color

#a5cab2

#a5cab2
hex#a5cab2
rgbrgb(165, 202, 178)
hslhsl(141, 26%, 72%)
oklchoklch(0.805 0.052 156.6)
Closest name: Gum Leaf (#acc9b2)Relative luminance 0.5345

Colors that go with #a5cab2

Charcoal, Plum and Blue 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 #a5cab2

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#caa5bd

#abcaa5 · #a5cac5

#b2a5ca · #cab2a5

Split-complementary

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#c5a5ca · #caa5ab

#a5abca · #caa5bd · #cac5a5

Contrast

#a5cab2 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.8:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #4b815e as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #396047 as the text (7.15:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4f4f4f (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #333333 (7.03:1)
Aaon black
11.69:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a5cab2 as the background.

Brands using this color

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

Fonts for this mood

#a5cab2 reads as muted, light, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a5cab2
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 #a5cab2 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a5cab2-a2beaf-c459d4-1f2d2a-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md