Color

#255255

#255255
hex#255255
rgbrgb(37, 82, 85)
hslhsl(184, 39%, 24%)
oklchoklch(0.408 0.05 201.2)
Closest name: darkslategray (#2f4f4f)Relative luminance 0.0708

Colors that go with #255255

Rust, Blue and Cadet 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#552925

#255540 · #253a55

#552552 · #525525

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#55253a · #554025

#402555 · #552925 · #3a5525

Contrast

#255255 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
8.69:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.42:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #3b8287 as the text (4.73:1)
  • AAA: use #4ba4aa as the text (7.19:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #bdbdbd (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #e8e8e8 (7.09:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #255255 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

#255255 reads as cool, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #255255
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 #255255 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/255255-a2b9be-df4e8a-1f262d-e9f1ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md