Color

#556b9b

#556b9b
hex#556b9b
rgbrgb(85, 107, 155)
hslhsl(221, 29%, 47%)
oklchoklch(0.531 0.08 264.9)
Closest name: Bellflower (#5d66aa)Relative luminance 0.1481

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9b8555

#558e9b · #62559b

#9b556b · #6b9b55

Split-complementary

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#9b6255 · #8e9b55

#9b558e · #9b8555 · #559b62

Contrast

#556b9b as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
5.3:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #45577d as the text (7.21:1)
Aaon black
3.96:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #5e75a6 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #8597bc as the text (7.15:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #ededed (4.53:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #556b9b 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 #556b9b
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 #556b9b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/556b9b-9ca4c4-df6b4e-211f2d-e9eff1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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