Color

#4e505a

#4e505a
hex#4e505a
rgbrgb(78, 80, 90)
hslhsl(230, 7%, 33%)
oklchoklch(0.433 0.017 276.7)
Closest name: Black Orchid (#525463)Relative luminance 0.081

Colors that go with #4e505a

Cadet Blue, Copper and Medium Sea Green 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 #4e505a

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#5a584e

#4e565a · #524e5a

#5a4e50 · #505a4e

Split-complementary

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#5a524e · #565a4e

#5a4e56 · #5a584e · #4e5a52

Contrast

#4e505a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
8.02:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.62:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #727583 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #9597a3 as the text (7.23:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #c2c2c2 (4.5:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #f0f0f0 (7.04:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #4e505a 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

Fonts for this mood

#4e505a reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #4e505a
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 #4e505a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/4e505a-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md