Darkroom
Open in tool →Sepia, faded ochre and a teal shadow on aged paper — the photograph-in-a-drawer palette, tuned so it still passes AA.
Color
#445553
#445553
hex
#445553rgb
rgb(68, 85, 83)hsl
hsl(173, 11%, 30%)oklch
oklch(0.434 0.021 187.6)Closest name: All Nighter (#455454)Relative luminance 0.0835
Colors that go with #445553
Cadet Blue, Copper and Denim 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.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #445553: 4 real palettes, including Paper & Pine and Dusk, as the supporting colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #445553: 4 real palettes, including Desert Road and Clay & Linen, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #445553: 6 real palettes, including HP's brand system and Hinge's brand system, as the accent.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #445553 in 4 real palettes, including Fireside and Mid-Century, as the accent.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
shippedMedium Sea Green is paired with #445553 in 5 real palettes, including Console Light and Mint Modern, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped6 real palettes, including Microsoft's brand system and First Snow put Midnight Blue beside #445553, as the accent.
Orange Red #ff4500
shippedOrange Red is paired with #445553 in 4 real palettes, including Neon's brand system and Tumblr's brand system, as the accent.
White Smoke #f5f5f5
neutralWhite Smoke is the near-white surface #445553 was made for — maximum legibility with no colour cast to argue with.
Real palettes that use #445553
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #445553 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 7.86:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.67:1 | fail | fail | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #445553 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
#445553 reads as muted, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #445553
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #445553 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/445553-a2bebe-d459a3-1f292d-e9f1ec?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md