Color
#5b668b
#5b668brgb(91, 102, 139)hsl(226, 21%, 45%)oklch(0.516 0.06 271.4)Colors that go with #5b668b
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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #5b668b: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Sea Green #2e8b57
triadicshippedSea Green completes a triad with #5b668b — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
complementaryshippedDark Olive Green sits directly opposite #5b668b on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #5b668b in 6 real palettes, including Lemon Squeezy's brand system and McDonald's's brand system, as the lead colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Darkroom and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #5b668b, as the surface under it.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #5b668b: 6 real palettes, including Fintech Trust and Ink & Paper, as the lead colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #5b668b: 4 real palettes, including Dusk and Desert Road, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #5b668b in 16 real palettes, including Retro Pop and Wendy's's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #5b668b
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #5b668b as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.65:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.72:1 | 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 #5b668b 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 #5b668b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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