Color

#505162

#505162
hex#505162
rgbrgb(80, 81, 98)
hslhsl(237, 10%, 35%)
oklchoklch(0.441 0.028 282.5)
Closest name: Black Orchid (#525463)Relative luminance 0.0847

Colors that go with #505162

Blue, 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.

Real palettes that use #505162

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#626150

#505a62 · #585062

#625051 · #516250

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#625850 · #5a6250

#62505a · #626150 · #506258

Contrast

#505162 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.79:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.69:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #73748c as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #9495a8 as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #c7c7c7 (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #f5f5f5 (7.15:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #505162 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 #505162
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 #505162 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/505162-9f9cc4-df924e-251f2d-e9edf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md