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
#45594f
#45594f
hex
#45594frgb
rgb(69, 89, 79)hsl
hsl(150, 13%, 31%)oklch
oklch(0.444 0.03 163.3)Closest name: Iridescent (#3a5b52)Relative luminance 0.0897
Colors that go with #45594f
Blue, Cadet Blue and Champagne 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.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including Warp's brand system and Rolex's brand system put Blue beside #45594f, as the supporting colour.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #45594f: 4 real palettes, including Paper & Pine and Dusk, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Darkroom and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #45594f, as the surface under it.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #45594f: 5 real palettes, including Desert Road and Clay & Linen, as the lead colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #45594f in 4 real palettes, including Codecademy's brand system and Gemstone, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #45594f: 5 real palettes, including HP's brand system and Hinge's brand system, as the accent.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #45594f in 5 real palettes, including Fireside and Mid-Century, as the accent.
White Smoke #f5f5f5
neutralWhite Smoke is the near-white surface #45594f was made for — maximum legibility with no colour cast to argue with.
Real palettes that use #45594f
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #45594f as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 7.51:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.79:1 | 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 #45594f 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 #45594f
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 #45594f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/45594f-a2beb3-d459d2-1f2d2c-e9f1ea?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