Color

#536d97

#536d97
hex#536d97
rgbrgb(83, 109, 151)
hslhsl(217, 29%, 46%)
oklchoklch(0.532 0.073 259.8)
Closest name: Beach View (#4f7694)Relative luminance 0.1501

Colors that go with #536d97

Charcoal, Sea Green and Sienna 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 #536d97

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#977d53

#538f97 · #5b5397

#97536d · #6d9753

Split-complementary

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#975b53 · #8f9753

#97538f · #977d53 · #53975b

Contrast

#536d97 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
5.25:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #43587a as the text (7.2:1)
Aaon black
4:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #5b77a4 as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #8298ba as the text (7.15:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #f0f0f0 (4.6:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #536d97 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 #536d97
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 #536d97 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/536d97-9ca7c4-df624e-201f2d-e9f0f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md