Color

#4e4257

#4e4257
hex#4e4257
rgbrgb(78, 66, 87)
hslhsl(274, 14%, 30%)
oklchoklch(0.4 0.038 310.5)
Closest name: Black Magic (#4f4554)Relative luminance 0.062

Colors that go with #4e4257

Blush Pink, Copper and Powder 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 #4e4257

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#4b5742

#434257 · #574256

#574e42 · #42574e

Split-complementary

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#565742 · #425743

#574342 · #4b5742 · #425657

Contrast

#4e4257 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
9.37:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.24:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #826e91 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #a091ac as the text (7.14:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #b5b5b5 (4.57:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #e0e0e0 (7.1:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #4e4257 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

#4e4257 reads as cool, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #4e4257
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 #4e4257 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/4e4257-b79cc4-c2cb62-2d1f2d-eae9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md