Color

#55aaaa

#55aaaa
hex#55aaaa
rgbrgb(85, 170, 170)
hslhsl(180, 33%, 50%)
oklchoklch(0.685 0.082 195.4)
Closest name: Atlas Cedar (#5ca0a7)Relative luminance 0.3358

Colors that go with #55aaaa

Charcoal, Burlywood and Copper 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#aa5555

#55aa80 · #5580aa

#aa55aa · #aaaa55

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#aa5580 · #aa8055

#8055aa · #aa5555 · #80aa55

Contrast

#55aaaa as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.72:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #3f7d7d as the text (4.73:1)
  • AAA: use #305f5f as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.64:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (7.04:1)
Aaon black
7.72:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #55aaaa as the background.

Brands using this color

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

mcpConnect your agent — build around #55aaaa
live endpoint

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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #55aaaa and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/55aaaa-a2bbbe-d45994-1f272d-e9f1ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md