Color

#495565

#495565
hex#495565
rgbrgb(73, 85, 101)
hslhsl(214, 16%, 34%)
oklchoklch(0.445 0.03 255.7)
Closest name: Black Orchid (#525463)Relative luminance 0.0885

Colors that go with #495565

Sienna, Blue and Cadet Blue 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 #495565

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#655949

#496365 · #4b4965

#654955 · #556549

Split-complementary

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#654b49 · #636549

#654963 · #655949 · #49654b

Contrast

#495565 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.58:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.77:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #67788e as the text (4.65:1)
  • AAA: use #8997a9 as the text (7.06:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #c9c9c9 (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #f7f7f7 (7.08:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #495565 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 #495565
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 #495565 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/495565-9ca9c4-df5a4e-1f1f2d-e9f0f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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