Color

#535665

#535665
hex#535665
rgbrgb(83, 86, 101)
hslhsl(230, 10%, 36%)
oklchoklch(0.456 0.025 276.5)
Closest name: Blackwater (#545663)Relative luminance 0.0943

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#656253

#535f65 · #595365

#655356 · #566553

Split-complementary

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#655953 · #5f6553

#65535f · #656253 · #536559

Contrast

#535665 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.27:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.89:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #707589 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #9295a5 as the text (7.06:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #cccccc (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #fcfcfc (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 #535665 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 #535665
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #535665 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/535665-9c9ec4-df814e-231f2d-e9eef1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md