Color

#4c565d

#4c565d
hex#4c565d
rgbrgb(76, 86, 93)
hslhsl(205, 10%, 33%)
oklchoklch(0.447 0.017 238.4)
Closest name: Black Orchid (#525463)Relative luminance 0.0898

Colors that go with #4c565d

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 #4c565d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#5d534c

#4c5d5b · #4c4d5d

#5d4c56 · #565d4c

Split-complementary

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#5d4c4d · #5d5b4c

#5b4c5d · #5d534c · #4d5d4c

Contrast

#4c565d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.51:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.8:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6a7781 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #8c98a1 as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #c9c9c9 (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #f7f7f7 (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 #4c565d 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 #4c565d
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 #4c565d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/4c565d-9cafc4-df4e58-1f212d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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