Color

#4e5255

#4e5255
hex#4e5255
rgbrgb(78, 82, 85)
hslhsl(206, 4%, 32%)
oklchoklch(0.436 0.007 240)
Closest name: All Nighter (#455454)Relative luminance 0.0831

Colors that go with #4e5255

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 #4e5255

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#55514e

#4e5554 · #4e4f55

#554e52 · #52554e

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#554e4f · #55544e

#544e55 · #55514e · #4f554e

Contrast

#4e5255 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.89:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.66:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #71767a as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #92979b as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #c4c4c4 (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #f2f2f2 (7.05:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #4e5255 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

#4e5255 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #4e5255
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 #4e5255 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/4e5255-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

Want the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.

Machine-readable: color.md