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
#485653
#485653
hex
#485653rgb
rgb(72, 86, 83)hsl
hsl(167, 9%, 31%)oklch
oklch(0.44 0.018 181)Closest name: All Nighter (#455454)Relative luminance 0.0866
Colors that go with #485653
Cadet Blue, Copper and Denim 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.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #485653: 4 real palettes, including Paper & Pine and Dusk, as the supporting colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #485653: 5 real palettes, including Desert Road and Clay & Linen, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #485653: 6 real palettes, including HP's brand system and Hinge's brand system, as the accent.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #485653 in 4 real palettes, including Fireside and Mid-Century, as the accent.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
shippedMedium Sea Green is paired with #485653 in 5 real palettes, including Console Light and Undergrowth, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped5 real palettes, including First Snow and Microsoft's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #485653, as that palette's text colour.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #485653: 4 real palettes, including Stone and Nursery, as the accent.
White Smoke #f5f5f5
neutralWhite Smoke is the near-white surface #485653 was made for — maximum legibility with no colour cast to argue with.
Real palettes that use #485653
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #485653 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 7.69:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.73:1 | 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 #485653 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
#485653 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #485653
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 #485653 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/485653-a2bebb-d459af-1f2a2d-e9f1ec?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