Color

#4c5250

#4c5250
hex#4c5250
rgbrgb(76, 82, 80)
hslhsl(160, 4%, 31%)
oklchoklch(0.433 0.008 174)
Closest name: All Nighter (#455454)Relative luminance 0.0815

Colors that go with #4c5250

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 #4c5250

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#524c4e

#4c524d · #4c5152

#504c52 · #52504c

Split-complementary

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#524c51 · #524d4c

#4d4c52 · #524c4e · #51524c

Contrast

#4c5250 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.98:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.63:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6e7774 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #909895 as the text (7.11:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #c4c4c4 (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #f0f0f0 (7.01:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #4c5250 as the background.

Brands using this color

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

Fonts for this mood

#4c5250 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #4c5250
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 #4c5250 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/4c5250-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md