Color

#535388

#535388
hex#535388
rgbrgb(83, 83, 136)
hslhsl(240, 24%, 43%)
oklchoklch(0.466 0.085 282.6)
Closest name: Dusk (#4e5481)Relative luminance 0.098

Colors that go with #535388

Charcoal, Steel Blue and Amber 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 #535388

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#888853

#536e88 · #6e5388

#885353 · #538853

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#886e53 · #6e8853

#88536e · #888853 · #53886e

Contrast

#535388 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.09:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.96:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7171a8 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #9393bd as the text (7.15:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #cfcfcf (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #ffffff (7.09:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #535388 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

mcpConnect your agent — build around #535388
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 #535388 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/535388-a19cc4-df994e-251f2d-e9edf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md