Color

#525366

#525366
hex#525366
rgbrgb(82, 83, 102)
hslhsl(237, 11%, 36%)
oklchoklch(0.449 0.031 282.7)
Closest name: Black Orchid (#525463)Relative luminance 0.0894

Colors that go with #525366

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 #525366

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#666552

#525d66 · #5b5266

#665253 · #536652

Split-complementary

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#665b52 · #5d6652

#66525d · #666552 · #52665b

Contrast

#525366 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.53:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.79:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #71738e as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #9395a9 as the text (7.11:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #c9c9c9 (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #f7f7f7 (7.03:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #525366 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 #525366
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 #525366 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/525366-9f9cc4-df924e-251f2d-e9edf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md