Color
#a5cabb
#a5cabbrgb(165, 202, 187)hsl(156, 26%, 72%)oklch(0.808 0.045 168.6)Colors that go with #a5cabb
Charcoal, Lilac 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #a5cabb: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #a5cabb on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Uber's brand system and League of Legends's brand system put Blue beside #a5cabb, as the accent.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #a5cabb: 4 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Desert Road, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #a5cabb in 4 real palettes, including Tiffany & Co.'s brand system and Frost & Ember, as the supporting colour.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #a5cabb: 5 real palettes, including Max's brand system and Salesforce's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #a5cabb: 5 real palettes, including Nikon's brand system and Fitbit's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Eggplant #614051
shippedEggplant shows up next to #a5cabb in 4 real palettes, including Sepia Mono and Blush, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #a5cabb
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a5cabb as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.78:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.77:1 | 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 #a5cabb 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
#a5cabb reads as muted, light, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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 #a5cabb and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/a5cabb-a2beb6-d459c6-1f2d2d-e9f1ea?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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