Macaron
Open in tool →Rose, sky and pistachio at patisserie strength — the pastel trio, with a plum-grey text colour so it never washes out.
Color
#453348
#453348
hex
#453348rgb
rgb(69, 51, 72)hsl
hsl(291, 17%, 24%)oklch
oklch(0.35 0.043 321.6)Closest name: Call It a Night (#42364c)Relative luminance 0.041
Colors that go with #453348
Dark Olive Green, Sea Green and Teal 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.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
split-complementshippedDark Olive Green is a split-complement of #453348: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Sea Green #2e8b57
complementaryshippedSea Green sits directly opposite #453348 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Teal #008080
split-complementshippedTeal is a split-complement of #453348: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Blue #0000ff
shipped10 real palettes, including Dunkin''s brand system and Headspace's brand system put Blue beside #453348, as the supporting colour.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped5 real palettes, including Garden Wedding and Nursery put Blush Pink beside #453348, as the supporting colour.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #453348 in 5 real palettes, including Polaroid and Velvet, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #453348: 7 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Open House, as the lead colour.
White Smoke #f5f5f5
neutralWhite Smoke is the surface for #453348: a clean near-white with no warm cast, so the cool hue stays clear instead of drifting muddy.
Real palettes that use #453348
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #453348 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 11.54:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 1.82:1 | 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 #453348 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
#453348 reads as cool, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #453348
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 #453348 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/453348-bf9fc1-a4cb62-2d1f29-ece9f1?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