Color
#5e487a
#5e487argb(94, 72, 122)hsl(266, 26%, 38%)oklch(0.446 0.083 303.5)Colors that go with #5e487a
Charcoal, Crimson and Denim 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 #5e487a: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #5e487a in 5 real palettes, including Wells Fargo's brand system and Walgreens's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #5e487a: 11 real palettes, including HP's brand system and Hinge's brand system, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped7 real palettes, including First Snow and Lufthansa's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #5e487a, as that palette's text colour.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #5e487a: 4 real palettes, including First Snow and Nursery, as the accent.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #5e487a in 9 real palettes, including Console Light and Stripe's brand system, as the lead colour.
Steel Blue #4682b4
shippedDesigners have shipped Steel Blue with #5e487a: 4 real palettes, including Capital One's brand system and Auth0's brand system, as the accent.
Teal #008080
triadicshippedTeal completes a triad with #5e487a — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Real palettes that use #5e487a
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #5e487a as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 7.82:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.68:1 | fail | fail | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #5e487a 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 #5e487a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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