Color
#528080
#528080rgb(82, 128, 128)hsl(180, 22%, 41%)oklch(0.567 0.05 195.8)Colors that go with #528080
Charcoal, Copper and Champagne 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 #528080: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Copper #b87333
triadicshippedCopper completes a triad with #528080 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #528080, as that palette's text colour.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #528080: 5 real palettes, including Ink & Paper and Intel's brand system, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #528080 in 9 real palettes, including Redfin's brand system and Retro Pop, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #528080: 11 real palettes, including Campus and Peacock, as the lead colour.
Firebrick #b22222
shippedDesigners have shipped Firebrick with #528080: 4 real palettes, including Newsprint and Wendy's's brand system, as the lead colour.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #528080 in 6 real palettes, including Mid-Century and Sapphire & Gold, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #528080
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #528080 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 4.41:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 4.76:1 | 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 #528080 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 #528080 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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