Color

#4e5156

#4e5156
hex#4e5156
rgbrgb(78, 81, 86)
hslhsl(218, 5%, 32%)
oklchoklch(0.434 0.009 260.7)
Closest name: All Nighter (#455454)Relative luminance 0.0818

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#56534e

#4e5556 · #4f4e56

#564e51 · #51564e

Split-complementary

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#564f4e · #55564e

#564e55 · #56534e · #4e564f

Contrast

#4e5156 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.97:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.64:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #72767e as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #94989e as the text (7.24:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #c4c4c4 (4.57:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #f2f2f2 (7.12:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #4e5156 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

#4e5156 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #4e5156
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #4e5156 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/4e5156-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md