Color

#4d404f

#4d404f
hex#4d404f
rgbrgb(77, 64, 79)
hslhsl(292, 10%, 28%)
oklchoklch(0.391 0.03 321.8)
Closest name: Black Magic (#4f4554)Relative luminance 0.0581

Colors that go with #4d404f

Sea Green, 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.

Real palettes that use #4d404f

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#424f40

#45404f · #4f4049

#4f4d40 · #404f4d

Split-complementary

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#494f40 · #404f45

#4f4540 · #424f40 · #40494f

Contrast

#4d404f as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
9.71:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.16:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #836e87 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #a392a5 as the text (7.21:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #b3b3b3 (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #dbdbdb (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 #4d404f 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

#4d404f reads as cool, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #4d404f
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 #4d404f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/4d404f-c09fc1-a3cb62-2d1f29-ece9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md