Color

#656d81

#656d81
hex#656d81
rgbrgb(101, 109, 129)
hslhsl(223, 12%, 45%)
oklchoklch(0.535 0.033 268.1)
Closest name: Ashen Whisper (#646b7a)Relative luminance 0.1529

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

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#817965

#657b81 · #6b6581

#81656d · #6d8165

Split-complementary

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#816b65 · #7b8165

#81657b · #817965 · #65816b

Contrast

#656d81 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
5.18:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #515767 as the text (7.22:1)
Aaon black
4.06:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #6e768c as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #9096a7 as the text (7.11:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #f0f0f0 (4.54:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #656d81 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Palettes built around it

mcpConnect your agent — build around #656d81
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #656d81 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/656d81-9ca3c4-df704e-211f2d-e9eff1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md