Color

#556eb4

#556eb4
hex#556eb4
rgbrgb(85, 110, 180)
hslhsl(224, 39%, 52%)
oklchoklch(0.551 0.113 267.7)
Closest name: Loch Ness (#5f6db0)Relative luminance 0.1638

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#b49b55

#559eb4 · #6b55b4

#b4556e · #6eb455

Split-complementary

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#b46b55 · #9eb455

#b4559e · #b49b55 · #55b46b

Contrast

#556eb4 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4.91:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #405691 as the text (7.1:1)
Aaon black
4.28:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #5c74b7 as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #8396c9 as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #f5f5f5 (4.5:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #556eb4 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

#556eb4 reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #556eb4
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 #556eb4 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/556eb4-9ca2c4-df724e-221f2d-e9eff1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md