Color
#508b6b
#508b6brgb(80, 139, 107)hsl(147, 27%, 43%)oklch(0.587 0.08 158.9)Colors that go with #508b6b
Charcoal, Copper and Medium Violet Red 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 #508b6b: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Copper #b87333
triadicshippedCopper completes a triad with #508b6b — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Medium Violet Red #c71585
complementaryshippedMedium Violet Red sits directly opposite #508b6b on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Kia's brand system and Warp's brand system put Blue beside #508b6b, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #508b6b in 4 real palettes, including Coastal and Kiln, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #508b6b, as that palette's text colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #508b6b in 8 real palettes, including Five Guys's brand system and Netflix's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #508b6b: 7 real palettes, including Intel's brand system and Jack Daniel's's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #508b6b
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #508b6b as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.25:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #508b6b 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 #508b6b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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