Color

#494f55

#494f55
hex#494f55
rgbrgb(73, 79, 85)
hslhsl(210, 8%, 31%)
oklchoklch(0.424 0.013 248.1)
Closest name: All Nighter (#455454)Relative luminance 0.0766

Colors that go with #494f55

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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#554f49

#495555 · #494955

#55494f · #4f5549

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#554949 · #555549

#554955 · #554f49 · #495549

Contrast

#494f55 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
8.29:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.53:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6e7881 as the text (4.67:1)
  • AAA: use #8e969f as the text (7.01:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #bfbfbf (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #ededed (7.08:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #494f55 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

#494f55 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #494f55
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 #494f55 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/494f55-9cabc4-df514e-1f202d-e9f1f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

Want the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.

Machine-readable: color.md