Color

#494653

#494653
hex#494653
rgbrgb(73, 70, 83)
hslhsl(254, 8%, 30%)
oklchoklch(0.402 0.022 296)
Closest name: Black Magic (#4f4554)Relative luminance 0.0642

Colors that go with #494653

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.

Real palettes that use #494653

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#505346

#464a53 · #4f4653

#534946 · #465349

Split-complementary

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#534f46 · #4a5346

#53464a · #505346 · #46534f

Contrast

#494653 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
9.19:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.28:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #787387 as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #9794a4 as the text (7.09:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #b8b8b8 (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #e3e3e3 (7.16:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #494653 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

#494653 reads as muted, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #494653
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 #494653 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/494653-aa9cc4-dfbb4e-291f2d-e9ebf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md