Color

#596997

#596997
hex#596997
rgbrgb(89, 105, 151)
hslhsl(225, 26%, 47%)
oklchoklch(0.527 0.075 269)
Closest name: Bellflower (#5d66aa)Relative luminance 0.1446

Colors that go with #596997

Charcoal, Sea Green and Dark Olive Green 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 #596997

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#978759

#598797 · #685997

#975968 · #689759

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#976859 · #879759

#975987 · #978759 · #599768

Contrast

#596997 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
5.4:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #4a577d as the text (7.12:1)
Aaon black
3.89:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #6575a4 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #8b97bb as the text (7.24:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #ebebeb (4.53:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #596997 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

mcpConnect your agent — build around #596997
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 #596997 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/596997-9ca1c4-df754e-221f2d-e9eff1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md