Color

#556bb4

#556bb4
hex#556bb4
rgbrgb(85, 107, 180)
hslhsl(226, 39%, 52%)
oklchoklch(0.545 0.117 269.6)
Closest name: Loch Ness (#5f6db0)Relative luminance 0.1574

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#b49e55

#559bb4 · #6e55b4

#b4556b · #6bb455

Split-complementary

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#b46e55 · #9bb455

#b4559b · #b49e55 · #55b46e

Contrast

#556bb4 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
5.06:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #415595 as the text (7.1:1)
Aaon black
4.15:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #5c71b7 as the text (4.5:1)
  • AAA: use #8696ca as the text (7.23:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #f2f2f2 (4.52:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #556bb4 as the background.

Brands using this color

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

Fonts for this mood

#556bb4 reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #556bb4
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 #556bb4 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/556bb4-9ca1c4-df774e-221f2d-e9eff1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md