Color

#55487a

#55487a
hex#55487a
rgbrgb(85, 72, 122)
hslhsl(256, 26%, 38%)
oklchoklch(0.437 0.082 294.8)
Closest name: Drifting Violet (#5b4276)Relative luminance 0.0797

Colors that go with #55487a

Steel Blue, Crimson and Denim 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 #55487a

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#6d7a48

#48537a · #6e487a

#7a5548 · #487a55

Split-complementary

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#7a6e48 · #537a48

#7a4853 · #6d7a48 · #487a6e

Contrast

#55487a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
8.09:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.59:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7b6ba8 as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #9b8fbd as the text (7.06:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #c2c2c2 (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #f0f0f0 (7.1:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #55487a 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 #55487a
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 #55487a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/55487a-ab9cc4-dfbf4e-291f2d-e9ebf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md