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Color
#515561
#515561
hex
#515561rgb
rgb(81, 85, 97)hsl
hsl(225, 9%, 35%)oklch
oklch(0.45 0.02 270.9)Closest name: Black Orchid (#525463)Relative luminance 0.0911
Colors that go with #515561
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.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Jeep's brand system and Warp's brand system put Blue beside #515561, as the accent.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Blush and Nursery put Blush Pink beside #515561, as the supporting colour.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #515561: 4 real palettes, including Dusk and Open House, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Darkroom and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #515561, as the surface under it.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #515561: 6 real palettes, including Desert Road and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #515561 in 4 real palettes, including Codecademy's brand system and Gemstone, as the accent.
Dark Goldenrod #b8860b
shipped4 real palettes, including Puma's brand system and Cider put Dark Goldenrod beside #515561, as the supporting colour.
White Smoke #f5f5f5
neutralWhite Smoke is the near-white surface #515561 was made for — maximum legibility with no colour cast to argue with.
Real palettes that use #515561
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #515561 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 7.44:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.82:1 | fail | fail | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #515561 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
Fonts for this mood
#515561 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #515561
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #515561 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/515561-9ca1c4-df754e-221f2d-e9eff1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md