Color

#504e5a

#504e5a
hex#504e5a
rgbrgb(80, 78, 90)
hslhsl(250, 7%, 33%)
oklchoklch(0.43 0.02 293.2)
Closest name: Black Orchid (#525463)Relative luminance 0.0789

Colors that go with #504e5a

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 #504e5a

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#585a4e

#4e525a · #564e5a

#5a504e · #4e5a50

Split-complementary

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#5a564e · #525a4e

#5a4e52 · #585a4e · #4e5a56

Contrast

#504e5a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
8.14:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.58:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #777486 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #9795a3 as the text (7.14:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #c2c2c2 (4.57:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #f0f0f0 (7.15:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #504e5a as the background.

Brands using this color

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

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#504e5a reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #504e5a
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 #504e5a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/504e5a-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md