Color

#4e5456

#4e5456
hex#4e5456
rgbrgb(78, 84, 86)
hslhsl(195, 5%, 32%)
oklchoklch(0.441 0.008 219.7)
Closest name: All Nighter (#455454)Relative luminance 0.0863

Colors that go with #4e5456

Cadet Blue, Champagne and Copper 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 #4e5456

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#56504e

#4e5654 · #4e5056

#564e54 · #54564e

Split-complementary

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#564e50 · #56544e

#544e56 · #56504e · #50564e

Contrast

#4e5456 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.7:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.73:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6d7678 as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #8f9799 as the text (7.05:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #c7c7c7 (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #f5f5f5 (7.06:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #4e5456 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

#4e5456 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #4e5456
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 #4e5456 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/4e5456-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md