Color

#525266

#525266
hex#525266
rgbrgb(82, 82, 102)
hslhsl(240, 11%, 36%)
oklchoklch(0.446 0.033 285)
Closest name: Freefall (#565266)Relative luminance 0.0879

Colors that go with #525266

Cadet Blue, Copper and Denim 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 #525266

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#666652

#525c66 · #5c5266

#665252 · #526652

Split-complementary

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#665c52 · #5c6652

#66525c · #666652 · #52665c

Contrast

#525266 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.62:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.76:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #747490 as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #9696ab as the text (7.25:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #c7c7c7 (4.5:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #f7f7f7 (7.11:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #525266 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 #525266
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 #525266 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/525266-a19cc4-df994e-251f2d-e9edf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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