Color
#505e45
#505e45rgb(80, 94, 69)hsl(94, 15%, 32%)oklch(0.463 0.043 131.7)Colors that go with #505e45
Slate 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.
Slate Blue #6a5acd
complementaryshippedSlate Blue sits directly opposite #505e45 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #505e45: 4 real palettes, including Paper & Pine and Alpine, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Darkroom and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #505e45, as the surface under it.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #505e45: 6 real palettes, including Desert Road and Clay & Linen, as the lead colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #505e45 in 5 real palettes, including Gemstone and Codecademy's brand system, as the accent.
Dark Goldenrod #b8860b
shipped4 real palettes, including Cider and Rolex's brand system put Dark Goldenrod beside #505e45, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #505e45: 9 real palettes, including HP's brand system and Intel's brand system, as the accent.
Cream #fffdd0
neutralCream is the surface #505e45 wants: a warm off-white that shares its undertone, so #505e45 reads softer on it than on pure white.
Real palettes that use #505e45
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #505e45 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.94:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.03:1 | 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 #505e45 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 #505e45 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/505e45-abbea2-5a4edf-1f2d1f-f0f1e9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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