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
#a5cea1
#a5cea1
hex
#a5cea1rgb
rgb(165, 206, 161)hsl
hsl(115, 31%, 72%)oklch
oklch(0.81 0.076 142.5)Closest name: Limestoned (#a7cca4)Relative luminance 0.5472
Colors that go with #a5cea1
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 #a5cea1: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Plum #dda0dd
complementaryshippedPlum sits directly opposite #a5cea1 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 Coffee Bar and Midnight Luxe put Champagne beside #a5cea1, as that palette's text colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #a5cea1 in 5 real palettes, including Tiffany & Co.'s brand system and Frost & Ember, as the supporting colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #a5cea1 in 4 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Forest Floor, as the lead colour.
Eggplant #614051
shippedEggplant shows up next to #a5cea1 in 4 real palettes, including Sepia Mono and Bramble, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #a5cea1 in 5 real palettes, including Canopy and Pine & Birch, as the lead colour.
Lilac #c8a2c8
split-complementshippedLilac is a split-complement of #a5cea1: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #a5cea1
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a5cea1 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.76:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.94:1 | 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 #a5cea1 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
#a5cea1 reads as muted, light, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #a5cea1
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 #a5cea1 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/a5cea1-a2bea3-8d4edf-1f2d24-eef1e9?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