Color
#aaa5ca
#aaa5cargb(170, 165, 202)hsl(248, 26%, 72%)oklch(0.739 0.053 291.2)Colors that go with #aaa5ca
Charcoal, Emerald Green and Dark Khaki 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 #aaa5ca: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Emerald Green #50c878
split-complementshippedEmerald Green is a split-complement of #aaa5ca: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Dark Khaki #bdb76b
complementaryshippedDark Khaki sits directly opposite #aaa5ca on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #aaa5ca: 5 real palettes, including Dusk and Riverbed, as the accent.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #aaa5ca: 4 real palettes, including Max's brand system and Calm's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #aaa5ca: 4 real palettes, including Opensea's brand system and Patreon's brand system, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #aaa5ca in 4 real palettes, including Canopy and Pine & Birch, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped7 real palettes, including First Snow and Open House put Midnight Blue beside #aaa5ca, as the text colour against it.
Real palettes that use #aaa5ca
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #aaa5ca as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.35:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.94:1 | 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 #aaa5ca 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
#aaa5ca reads as cool, muted, light. 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 #aaa5ca and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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