Color

#4e5a51

#4e5a51
hex#4e5a51
rgbrgb(78, 90, 81)
hslhsl(135, 7%, 33%)
oklchoklch(0.454 0.021 153.1)
Closest name: Muddy Olive (#4b5d46)Relative luminance 0.0953

Colors that go with #4e5a51

Blush Pink, Cadet Blue and Champagne 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 #4e5a51

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#5a4e57

#515a4e · #4e5a57

#514e5a · #5a514e

Split-complementary

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#574e5a · #5a4e51

#4e515a · #5a4e57 · #5a574e

Contrast

#4e5a51 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.23:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.91:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6b7b6f as the text (4.69:1)
  • AAA: use #8a998e as the text (7.03:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #cccccc (4.5:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #fcfcfc (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 #4e5a51 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

#4e5a51 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #4e5a51
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 #4e5a51 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/4e5a51-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md