Color

#4a545e

#4a545e
hex#4a545e
rgbrgb(74, 84, 94)
hslhsl(210, 12%, 33%)
oklchoklch(0.441 0.021 248.3)
Closest name: Black Orchid (#525463)Relative luminance 0.086

Colors that go with #4a545e

Cadet Blue, Champagne 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 #4a545e

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#5e544a

#4a5e5e · #4a4a5e

#5e4a54 · #545e4a

Split-complementary

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#5e4a4a · #5e5e4a

#5e4a5e · #5e544a · #4a5e4a

Contrast

#4a545e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.72:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.72:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #697886 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #8d99a5 as the text (7.23:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #c7c7c7 (4.57:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #f5f5f5 (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 #4a545e 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 #4a545e
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 #4a545e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/4a545e-9cabc4-df514e-1f202d-e9f1f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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