Color
#559daa
#559daargb(85, 157, 170)hsl(189, 33%, 50%)oklch(0.654 0.075 210.6)Colors that go with #559daa
Charcoal, Terracotta and Blush Pink 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 #559daa: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Terracotta #e2725b
complementaryshippedTerracotta sits directly opposite #559daa on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Estate and Rain Garden put Blush Pink beside #559daa, as the accent.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #559daa: 6 real palettes, including Dusk and Clean Beauty, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #559daa in 4 real palettes, including Diner and Retro Pop, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #559daa: 6 real palettes, including Dusk and Peacock, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped8 real palettes, including Ford's brand system and Confluent's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #559daa, as the accent.
Peru #cd853f
split-complementshippedPeru is a split-complement of #559daa: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #559daa
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #559daa as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.09:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.79:1 | 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 #559daa 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 #559daa and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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