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Named color
Black Orchid
#525463
hex
#525463rgb
rgb(82, 84, 99)hsl
hsl(233, 9%, 35%)oklch
oklch(0.45 0.025 279.4)Relative luminance 0.0904
Black Orchid on this page is the real value, not a screenshot: exact hex, RGB, HSL and OKLCH, ten tints and ten shades, classic harmonies, and WCAG contrast with fixes — plus the curated palettes it appears in and any public brand that adopts it.
Colors that go with Black Orchid
Blue, Blush Pink and Cadet Blue 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.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including Jeep's brand system and Warp's brand system put Blue beside Black Orchid, as the accent.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Blush and Nursery put Blush Pink beside Black Orchid, as the supporting colour.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with Black Orchid: 4 real palettes, including Dusk and Open House, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Darkroom and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside Black Orchid, as the surface under it.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with Black Orchid: 6 real palettes, including Desert Road and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with Black Orchid in 4 real palettes, including Codecademy's brand system and Gemstone, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with Black Orchid: 7 real palettes, including HP's brand system and Hinge's brand system, as the accent.
White Smoke #f5f5f5
neutralWhite Smoke is the near-white surface Black Orchid was made for — maximum legibility with no colour cast to argue with.
Real palettes that use Black Orchid
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| Black Orchid as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 7.48:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.81:1 | 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 Black Orchid 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
Fonts for this mood
Black Orchid reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around Black Orchid
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #525463 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/525463-9c9cc4-df884e-241f2d-e9eef1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md