Color

#538885

#538885
hex#538885
rgbrgb(83, 136, 133)
hslhsl(177, 24%, 43%)
oklchoklch(0.589 0.057 191.1)
Closest name: Arctic (#648589)Relative luminance 0.2114

Colors that go with #538885

Charcoal, Copper 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.

Real palettes that use #538885

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#885356

#53886b · #537088

#855388 · #888553

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#885370 · #886b53

#6b5388 · #885356 · #708853

Contrast

#538885 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4.02:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #4e7e7c as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #3a5f5d as the text (7.06:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #141414 (4.59:1)
Aaon black
5.23:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #64a09d as the text (7.06:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #538885 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 #538885
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 #538885 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/538885-a2bcbe-d4599b-1f282d-e9f1ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md