Color

#538d8a

#538d8a
hex#538d8a
rgbrgb(83, 141, 138)
hslhsl(177, 26%, 44%)
oklchoklch(0.603 0.061 191.4)
Closest name: Highlands (#449084)Relative luminance 0.2272

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8d5356

#538d6d · #53738d

#8a538d · #8d8a53

Split-complementary

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#8d5373 · #8d6d53

#6d538d · #8d5356 · #738d53

Contrast

#538d8a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.79:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #4a7d7b as the text (4.66:1)
  • AAA: use #375d5b as the text (7.29:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #1a1a1a (4.6:1)
Aaon black
5.54:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #5ea19d 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 #538d8a as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

mcpConnect your agent — build around #538d8a
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #538d8a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/538d8a-a2bcbe-d4599b-1f282d-e9f1ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md