Color

#504d49

#504d49
hex#504d49
rgbrgb(80, 77, 73)
hslhsl(34, 5%, 30%)
oklchoklch(0.422 0.008 75.3)
Closest name: Armadillo (#484a46)Relative luminance 0.0749

Colors that go with #504d49

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 #504d49

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#494c50

#504949 · #505049

#49504d · #4d4950

Split-complementary

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#495050 · #494950

#495049 · #494c50 · #504950

Contrast

#504d49 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
8.4:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.5:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #78746d as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #99958f as the text (7.05:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #bfbfbf (4.57:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #ebebeb (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 #504d49 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

#504d49 reads as neutral, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #504d49
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 #504d49 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/504d49-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md