Color

#4e5550

#4e5550
hex#4e5550
rgbrgb(78, 85, 80)
hslhsl(137, 4%, 32%)
oklchoklch(0.442 0.012 154.8)
Closest name: All Nighter (#455454)Relative luminance 0.087

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#554e53

#50554e · #4e5553

#504e55 · #55504e

Split-complementary

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#534e55 · #554e50

#4e5055 · #554e53 · #55534e

Contrast

#4e5550 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.67:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.74:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6e7771 as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #909892 as the text (7.09:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #c7c7c7 (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #f5f5f5 (7.03:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #4e5550 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Fonts for this mood

#4e5550 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #4e5550
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 #4e5550 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/4e5550-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md