Color
#b5e8ca
#b5e8cargb(181, 232, 202)hsl(145, 53%, 81%)oklch(0.887 0.067 158.9)Colors that go with #b5e8ca
Charcoal, Plum and Amber 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 #b5e8ca: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Plum #dda0dd
complementaryshippedPlum sits directly opposite #b5e8ca on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #b5e8ca in 7 real palettes, including Blueprint and Trailhead, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Uber's brand system and Dropbox's brand system put Blue beside #b5e8ca, as the accent.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Typewriter put Brown beside #b5e8ca, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #b5e8ca in 6 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Chalkboard, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #b5e8ca: 6 real palettes, including Estate and Dusk, as the supporting colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #b5e8ca: 9 real palettes, including Bramble and Clay & Linen, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #b5e8ca
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #b5e8ca as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.37:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 15.36:1 | 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 #b5e8ca 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
#b5e8ca reads as light, clean. 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 #b5e8ca and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/b5e8ca-a2beb1-cc59d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?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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