Color

#4c525d

#4c525d
hex#4c525d
rgbrgb(76, 82, 93)
hslhsl(219, 10%, 33%)
oklchoklch(0.437 0.02 262.7)
Closest name: Black Orchid (#525463)Relative luminance 0.0836

Colors that go with #4c525d

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 #4c525d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#5d574c

#4c5a5d · #4e4c5d

#5d4c52 · #525d4c

Split-complementary

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#5d4e4c · #5a5d4c

#5d4c5a · #5d574c · #4c5d4e

Contrast

#4c525d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.86:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.67:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6e7787 as the text (4.65:1)
  • AAA: use #8f96a3 as the text (7.06:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #c4c4c4 (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #f2f2f2 (7.02:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #4c525d 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 #4c525d
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 #4c525d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/4c525d-9ca5c4-df664e-211f2d-e9f0f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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