Color
#5d697e
#5d697ergb(93, 105, 126)hsl(218, 15%, 43%)oklch(0.519 0.036 261.6)Colors that go with #5d697e
Charcoal, Sea Green and Sienna 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 #5d697e: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Sea Green #2e8b57
triadicshippedSea Green completes a triad with #5d697e — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Sienna #a0522d
complementaryshippedSienna sits directly opposite #5d697e 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 #5d697e in 4 real palettes, including Lemon Squeezy's brand system and Beach Hut, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedChampagne is paired with #5d697e in 6 real palettes, including BrandSweets's brand system and Darkroom — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedCobalt Blue is paired with #5d697e in 6 real palettes, including Ink & Paper and Fintech Trust, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #5d697e in 6 real palettes, including Dusk and Riverbed, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #5d697e in 9 real palettes, including Retro Pop and Gemstone, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #5d697e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #5d697e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.54:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.79:1 | 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 #5d697e 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 #5d697e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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