Color
#596297
#596297rgb(89, 98, 151)hsl(231, 26%, 47%)oklch(0.512 0.085 275.6)Colors that go with #596297
Charcoal, Dark Olive Green and Crimson 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 #596297: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
complementaryshippedDark Olive Green sits directly opposite #596297 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 #596297 in 4 real palettes, including Retro Pop and Netflix's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
shippedMedium Sea Green is paired with #596297 in 4 real palettes, including Fintech Trust and Indigo SaaS, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #596297 in 4 real palettes, including Fintech Trust and Open House, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #596297 in 4 real palettes, including Stripe's brand system and Slate Workspace, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedSage Green is paired with #596297 in 4 real palettes, including Graphite and Darkroom, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #596297 in 12 real palettes, including Dusk and Astro's brand system, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #596297
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #596297 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.8:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.62:1 | 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 #596297 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 #596297 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/596297-9c9ec4-df834e-231f2d-e9eef1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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