Color

#535260

#535260
hex#535260
rgbrgb(83, 82, 96)
hslhsl(244, 8%, 35%)
oklchoklch(0.445 0.023 288.7)
Closest name: Black Orchid (#525463)Relative luminance 0.0872

Colors that go with #535260

Blue, Cadet Blue 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.

Real palettes that use #535260

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#5f6052

#525860 · #5a5260

#605352 · #526053

Split-complementary

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#605a52 · #586052

#605258 · #5f6052 · #52605a

Contrast

#535260 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.65:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.74:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #747387 as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #9594a4 as the text (7.05:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #c7c7c7 (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #f5f5f5 (7.02:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #535260 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

#535260 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #535260
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 #535260 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/535260-a39cc4-dfa24e-261f2d-e9edf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md