Color

#484d60

#484d60
hex#484d60
rgbrgb(72, 77, 96)
hslhsl(228, 14%, 33%)
oklchoklch(0.423 0.032 273.4)
Closest name: Abyssal (#404c57)Relative luminance 0.0753

Colors that go with #484d60

Steel Blue, Blue and Cadet 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.

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

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#605b48

#485960 · #4f4860

#60484d · #4d6048

Split-complementary

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#604f48 · #596048

#604859 · #605b48 · #48604f

Contrast

#484d60 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
8.38:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.51:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6e7591 as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #9196ac as the text (7.16:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #bfbfbf (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #ebebeb (7.03:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #484d60 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

mcpConnect your agent — build around #484d60
live endpoint

Point 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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #484d60 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/484d60-9c9fc4-df7c4e-231f2d-e9eff1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md