Color

#424e52

#424e52
hex#424e52
rgbrgb(66, 78, 82)
hslhsl(195, 11%, 29%)
oklchoklch(0.415 0.017 219.9)
Closest name: Abyssal (#404c57)Relative luminance 0.0722

Colors that go with #424e52

Blush Pink, Cadet Blue 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.

Real palettes that use #424e52

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#524642

#42524e · #424652

#52424e · #4e5242

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#524246 · #524e42

#4e4252 · #524642 · #465242

Contrast

#424e52 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
8.6:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.44:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #66797f as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #889aa0 as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #bdbdbd (4.57:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #e8e8e8 (7.01:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #424e52 as the background.

Brands using this color

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

Fonts for this mood

#424e52 reads as cool, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #424e52
live endpoint

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.

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

analyze #424e52 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/424e52-9cb5c4-df4e70-1f242d-e9f1ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md