Color
#b5a5bb
#b5a5bbrgb(181, 165, 187)hsl(284, 14%, 69%)oklch(0.743 0.036 316.9)Colors that go with #b5a5bb
Charcoal, Dark Sea Green 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 #b5a5bb: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Sea Green #8fbc8f
complementaryshippedDark Sea Green sits directly opposite #b5a5bb on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including Lexus's brand system and Uber's brand system put Blue beside #b5a5bb, as the supporting colour.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #b5a5bb in 4 real palettes, including Chalkboard and Polaroid, as the lead colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #b5a5bb: 6 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Riverbed, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #b5a5bb in 4 real palettes, including Cartier's brand system and Casper Sleep's brand system, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #b5a5bb: 4 real palettes, including Open House and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Emerald Green #50c878
shippedEmerald Green is paired with #b5a5bb in 4 real palettes, including Scale AI's brand system and Supabase's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #b5a5bb
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #b5a5bb as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.32:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.06:1 | 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 #b5a5bb as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
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 #b5a5bb and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/b5a5bb-bc9fc1-b1cb62-2d1f2b-ebe9f1?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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