Color

#4c495f

#4c495f
hex#4c495f
rgbrgb(76, 73, 95)
hslhsl(248, 13%, 33%)
oklchoklch(0.417 0.036 291)
Closest name: Black Magic (#4f4554)Relative luminance 0.0713

Colors that go with #4c495f

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 →

#5c5f49

#49515f · #57495f

#5f4c49 · #495f4c

Split-complementary

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#5f5749 · #515f49

#5f4951 · #5c5f49 · #495f57

Contrast

#4c495f as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
8.66:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.43:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #767292 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #9894ad as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #bdbdbd (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #e8e8e8 (7.07:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #4c495f 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 #4c495f
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 #4c495f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/4c495f-a69cc4-dfac4e-271f2d-e9ecf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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