Color

#a5d5cc

#a5d5cc
hex#a5d5cc
rgbrgb(165, 213, 204)
hslhsl(169, 36%, 74%)
oklchoklch(0.837 0.052 182.3)
Closest name: Clear Water (#aad5db)Relative luminance 0.5995

Colors that go with #a5d5cc

Charcoal, Lilac and Dark Olive Green 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 #a5d5cc

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#d5a5ae

#a5d5b4 · #a5c5d5

#cca5d5 · #d5cca5

Split-complementary

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#d5a5c5 · #d5b4a5

#b4a5d5 · #d5a5ae · #c5d5a5

Contrast

#a5d5cc as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.62:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #3c8074 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #2e6158 as the text (7.08:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #545454 (4.68:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #383838 (7.25:1)
Aaon black
12.99:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a5d5cc 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

#a5d5cc reads as light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a5d5cc
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 #a5d5cc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a5d5cc-a2bebc-d459ab-1f2a2d-e9f1ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md