Undergrowth
Open in tool →Fern and lichen with a fungus orange on a fir-black — the forest floor at dusk, as a dark theme.
Color
#536553
#536553
hex
#536553rgb
rgb(83, 101, 83)hsl
hsl(120, 10%, 36%)oklch
oklch(0.486 0.036 145)Closest name: Black Forest (#5e6354)Relative luminance 0.1177
Colors that go with #536553
Charcoal, Blush Pink and Cadet Blue 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 body-text near-black for #536553: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Graphite Mono and Blush put Blush Pink beside #536553, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #536553: 4 real palettes, including Alpine and Dusk, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including BrandSweets's brand system and Darkroom put Champagne beside #536553.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #536553: 6 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Desert Road, as the lead colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #536553 in 7 real palettes, including Gemstone and Five Guys's brand system, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #536553: 7 real palettes, including HP's brand system and Intel's brand system, as the accent.
Slate Blue #6a5acd
split-complementshippedSlate Blue is a split-complement of #536553: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #536553
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #536553 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.26:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 3.35:1 | fail | pass | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #536553 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 #536553
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #536553 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/536553-a2bea5-994edf-1f2d25-edf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md