Color
#488393
#488393rgb(72, 131, 147)hsl(193, 34%, 43%)oklch(0.576 0.066 217.4)Colors that go with #488393
Charcoal, Copper and Crimson 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 text near-black for #488393: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Copper #b87333
split-complementshippedCopper is a split-complement of #488393: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #488393 in 5 real palettes, including Retro Pop and Gemstone, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod is paired with #488393 in 5 real palettes, including Sapphire & Gold and Ledger Dark, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #488393 in 4 real palettes, including Plaid's brand system and Tide Pool, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Peru #cd853f
shippedPeru is paired with #488393 in 4 real palettes, including Mid-Century and Estate, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #488393 in 18 real palettes, including Rain Garden and Still Water, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Sienna #a0522d
complementarySienna sits directly opposite #488393 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #488393
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #488393 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 4.25:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 4.94:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #488393 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 #488393 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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