Color

#485563

#485563
hex#485563
rgbrgb(72, 85, 99)
hslhsl(211, 16%, 34%)
oklchoklch(0.444 0.028 250.4)
Closest name: Black Orchid (#525463)Relative luminance 0.0878

Colors that go with #485563

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.

Real palettes that use #485563

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#655749

#496465 · #494965

#654956 · #566549

Split-complementary

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#654949 · #646549

#654964 · #655749 · #496549

Contrast

#485563 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.62:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.76:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #65778b as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #8998a9 as the text (7.13:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #c7c7c7 (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #f7f7f7 (7.11:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #485563 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 #485563
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 #485563 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/485563-9cabc4-df534e-1f202d-e9f1f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md