Color
#566a71
#566a71rgb(86, 106, 113)hsl(196, 14%, 39%)oklch(0.51 0.026 221.1)Colors that go with #566a71
Charcoal, Champagne and Cobalt Blue 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 that reads cleanly against #566a71 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including BrandSweets's brand system and Darkroom put Champagne beside #566a71.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #566a71: 4 real palettes, including Ink & Paper and Fintech Trust, as the accent.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #566a71: 6 real palettes, including Riverbed and Desert Road, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #566a71 in 8 real palettes, including Gemstone and Retro Pop, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #566a71: 11 real palettes, including Campus and The New York Times's brand system, as the lead colour.
Firebrick #b22222
shippedDesigners have shipped Firebrick with #566a71: 5 real palettes, including Newsprint and Fireside, as the lead colour.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #566a71 in 5 real palettes, including Mid-Century and Sapphire & Gold, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #566a71
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #566a71 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.68:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.7:1 | fail | pass | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #566a71 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 #566a71 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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