Color

#c5cbbe

#c5cbbe
hex#c5cbbe
rgbrgb(197, 203, 190)
hslhsl(88, 11%, 77%)
oklchoklch(0.834 0.019 127.2)
Closest name: Argento (#cecac3)Relative luminance 0.583

Colors that go with #c5cbbe

Charcoal, Crimson 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 #c5cbbe

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#c4becb

#cbcabe · #becbbe

#bec5cb · #cbbec5

Split-complementary

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#bebecb · #cabecb

#becbca · #c4becb · #cbbebe

Contrast

#c5cbbe as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.66:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6e7a62 as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #525b49 as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #545454 (4.57:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #383838 (7.07:1)
Aaon black
12.66:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c5cbbe 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

#c5cbbe reads as muted, light, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c5cbbe
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 #c5cbbe and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c5cbbe-aebea2-4e51df-212d1f-f1f1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md