Color

#c5cbce

#c5cbce
hex#c5cbce
rgbrgb(197, 203, 206)
hslhsl(200, 8%, 79%)
oklchoklch(0.838 0.008 228.9)
Closest name: Herring Silver (#c6c8cf)Relative luminance 0.5904

Colors that go with #c5cbce

Charcoal, Amber and Brown 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#cec8c5

#c5cecc · #c5c7ce

#cec5cb · #cbcec5

Split-complementary

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#cec5c7 · #ceccc5

#ccc5ce · #cec8c5 · #c7cec5

Contrast

#c5cbce as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.64:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6c787f as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #50595e as the text (7.16:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #545454 (4.62:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #383838 (7.15:1)
Aaon black
12.81:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c5cbce 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

#c5cbce reads as muted, light, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c5cbce
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 #c5cbce and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c5cbce-9cb2c4-df4e64-1f232d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md