Color

#575260

#575260
hex#575260
rgbrgb(87, 82, 96)
hslhsl(261, 8%, 35%)
oklchoklch(0.448 0.023 301.7)
Closest name: Black Orchid (#525463)Relative luminance 0.0891

Colors that go with #575260

Blue, Blush Pink and Cadet 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.

Real palettes that use #575260

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#5b6052

#525460 · #5e5260

#605752 · #526057

Split-complementary

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#605e52 · #546052

#605254 · #5b6052 · #52605e

Contrast

#575260 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.55:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.78:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7a7387 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #9994a4 as the text (7.13:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #c9c9c9 (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #f7f7f7 (7.05:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #575260 as the background.

Brands using this color

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

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#575260 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #575260
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 #575260 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/575260-af9cc4-dfcb4e-2a1f2d-e9eaf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md