Color
#554a5e
#554a5ergb(85, 74, 94)hsl(273, 12%, 33%)oklch(0.428 0.035 309.7)Colors that go with #554a5e
Cadet Blue, Copper and Medium Sea Green 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.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedCadet Blue is paired with #554a5e in 4 real palettes, including Dusk and Paper & Pine, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #554a5e in 5 real palettes, including Desert Road and Dusk, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
shippedMedium Sea Green is paired with #554a5e in 4 real palettes, including Console Light and Mint Modern, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #554a5e in 5 real palettes, including First Snow and Open House, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedPowder Blue is paired with #554a5e in 5 real palettes, including Nursery and Stone, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
complementaryDark Olive Green sits directly opposite #554a5e on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Teal #008080
split-complementshippedTeal is a split-complement of #554a5e: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
White Smoke #f5f5f5
neutralWhite Smoke is the surface for #554a5e: a clean near-white with no warm cast, so the cool hue stays clear instead of drifting muddy.
Real palettes that use #554a5e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #554a5e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 8.31:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.53:1 | fail | fail | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #554a5e as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #554a5e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/554a5e-b79cc4-c4cb62-2d1f2d-eae9f1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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