Color

#48565b

#48565b
hex#48565b
rgbrgb(72, 86, 91)
hslhsl(196, 12%, 32%)
oklchoklch(0.443 0.019 221.4)
Closest name: All Nighter (#455454)Relative luminance 0.0879

Colors that go with #48565b

Blue, Cadet Blue and Champagne 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 #48565b

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#5b4d48

#485b57 · #484c5b

#5b4856 · #565b48

Split-complementary

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#5b484c · #5b5748

#57485b · #5b4d48 · #4c5b48

Contrast

#48565b as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.61:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.76:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #657981 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #879aa1 as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #c7c7c7 (4.5:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #f7f7f7 (7.11:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #48565b 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 #48565b
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 #48565b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/48565b-9cb5c4-df4e6e-1f232d-e9f1ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md