Color
#5f586f
#5f586frgb(95, 88, 111)hsl(258, 12%, 39%)oklch(0.476 0.037 298.9)Colors that go with #5f586f
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 #5f586f: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Darkroom and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #5f586f, as the surface under it.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #5f586f: 5 real palettes, including Dusk and Desert Road, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #5f586f in 6 real palettes, including Codecademy's brand system and Wells Fargo's brand system, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #5f586f: 7 real palettes, including HP's brand system and The New York Times's brand system, as the accent.
Firebrick #b22222
shippedDesigners have shipped Firebrick with #5f586f: 4 real palettes, including Newsprint and Fireside, as the lead colour.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #5f586f in 4 real palettes, including Open House and Mid-Century, as the accent.
Teal #008080
triadicshippedTeal completes a triad with #5f586f — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Real palettes that use #5f586f
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #5f586f as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.75:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.11:1 | 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 #5f586f 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 #5f586f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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