Color

#504e4f

#504e4f
hex#504e4f
rgbrgb(80, 78, 79)
hslhsl(330, 1%, 31%)
oklchoklch(0.426 0.003 345.3)
Closest name: Armadillo (#484a46)Relative luminance 0.0772

Colors that go with #504e4f

Blue, 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 #504e4f

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#4e504f

#504e50 · #504e4e

#4f504e · #4e4f50

Split-complementary

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#4e504e · #4e5050

#50504e · #4e504f · #4e4e50

Contrast

#504e4f as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
8.26:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.54:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #767475 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #979596 as the text (7.06:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #c2c2c2 (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #ededed (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 #504e4f 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

#504e4f reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #504e4f
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 #504e4f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/504e4f-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md