Color

#4e5a55

#4e5a55
hex#4e5a55
rgbrgb(78, 90, 85)
hslhsl(155, 7%, 33%)
oklchoklch(0.456 0.017 168.6)
Closest name: All Nighter (#455454)Relative luminance 0.0959

Colors that go with #4e5a55

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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#5a4e53

#4e5a4f · #4e595a

#554e5a · #5a554e

Split-complementary

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#5a4e59 · #5a4f4e

#4f4e5a · #5a4e53 · #595a4e

Contrast

#4e5a55 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.2:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.92:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #687872 as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #8a9993 as the text (7.06:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #cfcfcf (4.62:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #fcfcfc (7.02:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #4e5a55 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

#4e5a55 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #4e5a55
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 #4e5a55 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/4e5a55-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md