Color

#4b555d

#4b555d
hex#4b555d
rgbrgb(75, 85, 93)
hslhsl(207, 11%, 33%)
oklchoklch(0.444 0.018 242.1)
Closest name: Black Orchid (#525463)Relative luminance 0.0878

Colors that go with #4b555d

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 #4b555d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#5d534b

#4b5d5c · #4b4c5d

#5d4b55 · #555d4b

Split-complementary

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#5d4b4c · #5d5c4b

#5c4b5d · #5d534b · #4c5d4b

Contrast

#4b555d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.62:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.76:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #687782 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #8b98a2 as the text (7.11:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #c7c7c7 (4.51:1)
  • 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 #4b555d 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 #4b555d
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 #4b555d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/4b555d-9cadc4-df4e53-1f212d-e9f1f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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