Color
#487a53
#487a53rgb(72, 122, 83)hsl(133, 26%, 38%)oklch(0.533 0.082 149.9)Colors that go with #487a53
Charcoal, Royal Blue and Medium Violet Red 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #487a53: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Royal Blue #4169e1
triadicshippedRoyal Blue completes a triad with #487a53 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Medium Violet Red #c71585
complementaryshippedMedium Violet Red sits directly opposite #487a53 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Warp's brand system and Kia's brand system put Blue beside #487a53, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Forest Floor and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #487a53, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #487a53: 5 real palettes, including Wellness and Clay & Linen, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #487a53 in 7 real palettes, including Five Guys's brand system and Netflix's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #487a53: 7 real palettes, including Intel's brand system and Jack Daniel's's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #487a53
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #487a53 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.02:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 4.18:1 | fail | pass | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #487a53 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #487a53 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/487a53-a2beab-b84edf-1f2d28-ebf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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