Color

#53659d

#53659d
hex#53659d
rgbrgb(83, 101, 157)
hslhsl(225, 31%, 47%)
oklchoklch(0.517 0.092 269.5)
Closest name: Bellflower (#5d66aa)Relative luminance 0.1358

Colors that go with #53659d

Charcoal, Sea Green and Dark Olive Green 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9d8a53

#538a9d · #65539d

#9d5365 · #659d53

Split-complementary

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#9d6553 · #8a9d53

#9d538a · #9d8a53 · #539d65

Contrast

#53659d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
5.65:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #465686 as the text (7.15:1)
Aaon black
3.72:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #6275ac as the text (4.66:1)
  • AAA: use #8795c0 as the text (7.09:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #e6e6e6 (4.53:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #53659d 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 #53659d
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 #53659d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/53659d-9ca1c4-df754e-221f2d-e9eff1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md