Color

#538886

#538886
hex#538886
rgbrgb(83, 136, 134)
hslhsl(178, 24%, 43%)
oklchoklch(0.589 0.057 192.7)
Closest name: Arctic (#648589)Relative luminance 0.2117

Colors that go with #538886

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 #538886

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#885355

#53886c · #536f88

#865388 · #888653

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#88536f · #886c53

#6c5388 · #885355 · #6f8853

Contrast

#538886 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4.01:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #4e7e7d as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #3a5f5e as the text (7.05:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #141414 (4.59:1)
Aaon black
5.23:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #64a09e 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 #538886 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 #538886
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 #538886 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/538886-a2bcbe-d45999-1f282d-e9f1ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md