Color
#5596aa
#5596aargb(85, 150, 170)hsl(194, 33%, 50%)oklch(0.637 0.073 219.9)Colors that go with #5596aa
Charcoal, Copper and Chocolate 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #5596aa: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Copper #b87333
split-complementshippedCopper is a split-complement of #5596aa: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Chocolate #d2691e
complementaryshippedChocolate sits directly opposite #5596aa on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #5596aa in 5 real palettes, including Diner and Retro Pop, as the lead colour.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #5596aa: 4 real palettes, including Telegram's brand system and Snowflake AI Data Cloud's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #5596aa: 9 real palettes, including Dusk and Peacock, as the lead colour.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #5596aa in 4 real palettes, including Ledger Dark and Noir Beauty, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped9 real palettes, including Ford's brand system and SoFi's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #5596aa, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #5596aa
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #5596aa as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.32:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.33:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #5596aa 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 #5596aa and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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