Harbour
Open in tool →Steel blue and haze with a buoy orange on a pale grey — the maritime palette every port town uses for a reason.
Color
#445a7e
#445a7e
hex
#445a7ergb
rgb(68, 90, 126)hsl
hsl(217, 30%, 38%)oklch
oklch(0.465 0.065 260)Closest name: Deep Indigo (#4c567a)Relative luminance 0.1005
Colors that go with #445a7e
Sea Green, Sienna and Cobalt 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.
Sea Green #2e8b57
triadicshippedSea Green completes a triad with #445a7e — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Sienna #a0522d
complementaryshippedSienna sits directly opposite #445a7e on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #445a7e: 4 real palettes, including Fintech Trust and Ink & Paper, as the lead colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #445a7e: 4 real palettes, including Dusk and Desert Road, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #445a7e in 11 real palettes, including Amazon's brand system and Codecademy's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #445a7e: 10 real palettes, including HP's brand system and The New York Times's brand system, as the accent.
Firebrick #b22222
shippedDesigners have shipped Firebrick with #445a7e: 5 real palettes, including Fireside and Wendy's's brand system, as the lead colour.
White Smoke #f5f5f5
neutralWhite Smoke is the surface for #445a7e: a clean near-white with no warm cast, so the cool hue stays clear instead of drifting muddy.
Real palettes that use #445a7e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #445a7e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.98:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 3.01:1 | fail | pass | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #445a7e 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 #445a7e
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 #445a7e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/445a7e-9ca7c4-df624e-201f2d-e9f0f1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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