Color

#4a455e

#4a455e
hex#4a455e
rgbrgb(74, 69, 94)
hslhsl(252, 15%, 32%)
oklchoklch(0.406 0.042 293.6)
Closest name: Black Magic (#4f4554)Relative luminance 0.0652

Colors that go with #4a455e

Steel Blue, Teal and 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#595e45

#454d5e · #56455e

#5e4a45 · #455e4a

Split-complementary

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#5e5645 · #4d5e45

#5e454d · #595e45 · #455e56

Contrast

#4a455e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
9.11:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.3:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7a7297 as the text (4.68:1)
  • AAA: use #9892af as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #b8b8b8 (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #e3e3e3 (7.1:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #4a455e as the background.

Brands using this color

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

mcpConnect your agent — build around #4a455e
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 #4a455e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/4a455e-a99cc4-dfb64e-281f2d-e9ecf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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