Desert Road
Open in tool →Sandstone and sand with a deep teal — the one cool note makes the warm colours look intentional rather than beige.
Color
#445a56
#445a56
hex
#445a56rgb
rgb(68, 90, 86)hsl
hsl(169, 14%, 31%)oklch
oklch(0.448 0.028 182.7)Closest name: Iridescent (#3a5b52)Relative luminance 0.0921
Colors that go with #445a56
Cadet Blue, Champagne and Copper 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
shippedCadet Blue is paired with #445a56 in 4 real palettes, including Paper & Pine and Dusk, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedChampagne is paired with #445a56 in 4 real palettes, including Darkroom and BrandSweets's brand system, as the surface under it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #445a56 in 4 real palettes, including Desert Road and Clay & Linen, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #445a56 in 7 real palettes, including HP's brand system and Hinge's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod is paired with #445a56 in 4 real palettes, including Fireside and Mid-Century, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
shippedMedium Sea Green is paired with #445a56 in 5 real palettes, including Console Light and Undergrowth, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #445a56 in 5 real palettes, including Open House and First Snow, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
White Smoke #f5f5f5
neutralWhite Smoke is the near-white surface #445a56 was made for — maximum legibility with no colour cast to argue with.
Real palettes that use #445a56
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #445a56 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 7.39:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.84:1 | 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 #445a56 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
mcpConnect your agent — build around #445a56
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 #445a56 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/445a56-a2bebc-d459ab-1f2a2d-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