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Color
#55535a
#55535a
hex
#55535argb
rgb(85, 83, 90)hsl
hsl(257, 4%, 34%)oklch
oklch(0.447 0.012 299)Closest name: Black Orchid (#525463)Relative luminance 0.0886
Colors that go with #55535a
Blue, Blush Pink and Cadet Blue 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.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including Jeep's brand system and Warp's brand system put Blue beside #55535a, as the accent.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Blush and Nursery put Blush Pink beside #55535a, as the supporting colour.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #55535a: 4 real palettes, including Dusk and Paper & Pine, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Darkroom and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #55535a, as the surface under it.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #55535a: 7 real palettes, including Desert Road and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #55535a: 7 real palettes, including HP's brand system and Hinge's brand system, as the accent.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #55535a in 5 real palettes, including Fireside and Mid-Century, as the accent.
White Smoke #f5f5f5
neutralWhite Smoke is the near-white surface #55535a was made for — maximum legibility with no colour cast to argue with.
Real palettes that use #55535a
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #55535a as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 7.58:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.77:1 | 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 #55535a 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
Fonts for this mood
#55535a reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #55535a
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #55535a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/55535a-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md