Color
#5e6478
#5e6478rgb(94, 100, 120)hsl(226, 12%, 42%)oklch(0.505 0.033 272.1)Colors that go with #5e6478
Charcoal, Champagne and Copper 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 #5e6478: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including BrandSweets's brand system and Darkroom put Champagne beside #5e6478.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #5e6478: 5 real palettes, including Dusk and Desert Road, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #5e6478 in 10 real palettes, including Retro Pop and Gemstone, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #5e6478: 8 real palettes, including Campus and HP's brand system, as the lead colour.
Firebrick #b22222
shippedDesigners have shipped Firebrick with #5e6478: 5 real palettes, including Newsprint and Wendy's's brand system, as the lead colour.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #5e6478 in 4 real palettes, including Mid-Century and Open House, as the accent.
Sea Green #2e8b57
triadicshippedSea Green completes a triad with #5e6478 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Real palettes that use #5e6478
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #5e6478 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.88:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.57:1 | 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 #5e6478 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 #5e6478 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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