Color
#516e8a
#516e8argb(81, 110, 138)hsl(209, 26%, 43%)oklch(0.527 0.056 248)Colors that go with #516e8a
Charcoal, Champagne and Copper 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 #516e8a: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedChampagne is paired with #516e8a in 5 real palettes, including Darkroom and Forest Floor, as the surface under it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #516e8a in 6 real palettes, including Dusk and Riverbed, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #516e8a in 4 real palettes, including Retro Pop and Gemstone, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod is paired with #516e8a in 5 real palettes, including Open House and Sapphire & Gold, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
shippedMedium Sea Green is paired with #516e8a in 4 real palettes, including Fintech Trust and Indigo SaaS, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #516e8a in 4 real palettes, including Fintech Trust and Open House, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Sienna #a0522d
complementarySienna sits directly opposite #516e8a on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #516e8a
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #516e8a as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.32:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.95:1 | 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 #516e8a 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 #516e8a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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