Color

#488c8e

#488c8e
hex#488c8e
rgbrgb(72, 140, 142)
hslhsl(182, 33%, 42%)
oklchoklch(0.597 0.069 198)
Closest name: Highlands (#449084)Relative luminance 0.2209

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8e4a48

#488e6d · #48698e

#8e488c · #8c8e48

Split-complementary

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#8e4869 · #8e6d48

#6d488e · #8e4a48 · #698e48

Contrast

#488c8e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.88:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #417f81 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #305d5f as the text (7.35:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #171717 (4.62:1)
Aaon black
5.42:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #54a3a6 as the text (7.17:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #488c8e as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

mcpConnect your agent — build around #488c8e
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #488c8e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/488c8e-a2babe-d45990-1f272d-e9f1ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md