Color

#4e4e5f

#4e4e5f
hex#4e4e5f
rgbrgb(78, 78, 95)
hslhsl(240, 10%, 34%)
oklchoklch(0.43 0.028 285.2)
Closest name: Black Orchid (#525463)Relative luminance 0.0789

Colors that go with #4e4e5f

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 #4e4e5f

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#5f5f4e

#4e575f · #574e5f

#5f4e4e · #4e5f4e

Split-complementary

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#5f574e · #575f4e

#5f4e57 · #5f5f4e · #4e5f57

Contrast

#4e4e5f as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
8.14:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.58:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #73738c as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #9494a8 as the text (7.06:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #c2c2c2 (4.57:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #f0f0f0 (7.15:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #4e4e5f 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 #4e4e5f
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 #4e4e5f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/4e4e5f-a19cc4-df994e-251f2d-e9edf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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