Color

#504f59

#504f59
hex#504f59
rgbrgb(80, 79, 89)
hslhsl(246, 6%, 33%)
oklchoklch(0.432 0.016 290.3)
Closest name: Black Orchid (#525463)Relative luminance 0.0802

Colors that go with #504f59

Cadet 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 #504f59

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#58594f

#4f5359 · #554f59

#59504f · #4f5950

Split-complementary

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#59554f · #53594f

#594f53 · #58594f · #4f5955

Contrast

#504f59 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
8.07:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.6:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #757382 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #9796a2 as the text (7.2:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #c2c2c2 (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #f0f0f0 (7.08:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #504f59 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

#504f59 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #504f59
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 #504f59 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/504f59-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md