Dusk
Open in tool →Slate blue with a copper accent — calm, professional, slightly editorial; suits consultancies and journals.
Color
#445d83
#445d83
hex
#445d83rgb
rgb(68, 93, 131)hsl
hsl(216, 32%, 39%)oklch
oklch(0.475 0.069 258.6)Closest name: Deep Indigo (#4c567a)Relative luminance 0.107
Colors that go with #445d83
Charcoal, Sea Green and Sienna 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #445d83: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Sea Green #2e8b57
triadicshippedSea Green completes a triad with #445d83 — 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 #445d83 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #445d83 in 4 real palettes, including Lemon Squeezy's brand system and Warner Bros.'s brand system, as the lead colour.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #445d83: 5 real palettes, including Fintech Trust and Ink & Paper, as the lead colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #445d83: 4 real palettes, including Dusk and Desert Road, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #445d83 in 12 real palettes, including Amazon's brand system and Codecademy's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Firebrick #b22222
shippedDesigners have shipped Firebrick with #445d83: 5 real palettes, including Wendy's's brand system and AT&T's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #445d83
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #445d83 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.69:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 3.14:1 | 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 #445d83 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 #445d83
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 #445d83 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/445d83-9ca7c4-df5f4e-201f2d-e9f0f1?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