Color

#505486

#505486
hex#505486
rgbrgb(80, 84, 134)
hslhsl(236, 25%, 42%)
oklchoklch(0.465 0.081 279.3)
Closest name: Dusk (#4e5481)Relative luminance 0.0977

Colors that go with #505486

Charcoal, Steel Blue 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.

Real palettes that use #505486

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#868250

#506f86 · #685086

#865054 · #548650

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#866850 · #6f8650

#86506f · #868250 · #508668

Contrast

#505486 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.11:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.95:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6c70a7 as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #8f92bc as the text (7.01:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #cfcfcf (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #ffffff (7.11:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #505486 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 #505486
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 #505486 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/505486-9e9cc4-df8f4e-241f2d-e9eef1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md