Color

#505662

#505662
hex#505662
rgbrgb(80, 86, 98)
hslhsl(220, 10%, 35%)
oklchoklch(0.452 0.021 264.3)
Closest name: Blackwater (#545663)Relative luminance 0.0924

Colors that go with #505662

Blue, Blush Pink 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 #505662

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#625c50

#505f62 · #535062

#625056 · #566250

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#625350 · #5f6250

#62505f · #625c50 · #506253

Contrast

#505662 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.37:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.85:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6e7687 as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #8f96a3 as the text (7.06:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #cccccc (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #fafafa (7.06:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #505662 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 #505662
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 #505662 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/505662-9ca5c4-df694e-211f2d-e9f0f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md