Color
#535a49
#535a49rgb(83, 90, 73)hsl(85, 10%, 32%)oklch(0.456 0.028 125.7)Colors that go with #535a49
Blush Pink, 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.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Blush and Nursery put Blush Pink beside #535a49, as the supporting colour.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #535a49: 4 real palettes, including Paper & Pine and Dusk, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Darkroom and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #535a49, as the surface under it.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #535a49: 5 real palettes, including Desert Road and Clay & Linen, as the lead colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #535a49 in 4 real palettes, including Codecademy's brand system and Gemstone, as the accent.
Dark Goldenrod #b8860b
shipped4 real palettes, including Cider and Rolex's brand system put Dark Goldenrod beside #535a49, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #535a49: 9 real palettes, including HP's brand system and Hinge's brand system, as the accent.
White Smoke #f5f5f5
neutralWhite Smoke is the near-white surface #535a49 was made for — maximum legibility with no colour cast to argue with.
Real palettes that use #535a49
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #535a49 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 7.18:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.93:1 | fail | fail | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #535a49 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 #535a49 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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