Color

#4d495a

#4d495a
hex#4d495a
rgbrgb(77, 73, 90)
hslhsl(254, 10%, 32%)
oklchoklch(0.416 0.028 295.9)
Closest name: Black Magic (#4f4554)Relative luminance 0.0708

Colors that go with #4d495a

Blue, Champagne and Copper 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

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#565a49

#494e5a · #55495a

#5a4d49 · #495a4d

Split-complementary

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#5a5549 · #4e5a49

#5a494e · #565a49 · #495a55

Contrast

#4d495a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
8.69:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.42:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #79738c as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #9994a8 as the text (7.16:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #bdbdbd (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #e8e8e8 (7.09:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #4d495a 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 #4d495a
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 #4d495a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/4d495a-aa9cc4-dfbb4e-291f2d-e9ebf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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