Color

#485260

#485260
hex#485260
rgbrgb(72, 82, 96)
hslhsl(215, 14%, 33%)
oklchoklch(0.435 0.026 256.8)
Closest name: Black Orchid (#525463)Relative luminance 0.0826

Colors that go with #485260

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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#605648

#485e60 · #4a4860

#604852 · #526048

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#604a48 · #5e6048

#60485e · #605648 · #48604a

Contrast

#485260 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.92:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.65:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #69788c as the text (4.67:1)
  • AAA: use #8b97a7 as the text (7.08:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #c4c4c4 (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #f2f2f2 (7.08:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #485260 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 #485260
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 #485260 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/485260-9ca8c4-df5d4e-201f2d-e9f0f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md