Color
#496552
#496552rgb(73, 101, 82)hsl(139, 16%, 34%)oklch(0.479 0.045 154.7)Colors that go with #496552
Charcoal, Cadet Blue and Champagne 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 #496552: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedCadet Blue is paired with #496552 in 4 real palettes, including Alpine and Paper & Pine, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedChampagne is paired with #496552 in 5 real palettes, including Darkroom and BrandSweets's brand system, as the surface under it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #496552 in 5 real palettes, including Desert Road and Clay & Linen, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #496552 in 7 real palettes, including Gemstone and Five Guys's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #496552 in 7 real palettes, including HP's brand system and Intel's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod is paired with #496552 in 5 real palettes, including Fireside and Mid-Century, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Slate Blue #6a5acd
split-complementshippedSlate Blue is a split-complement of #496552: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #496552
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #496552 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.43:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.27:1 | 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 #496552 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 #496552 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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