Color

#50535e

#50535e
hex#50535e
rgbrgb(80, 83, 94)
hslhsl(227, 8%, 34%)
oklchoklch(0.444 0.018 273.5)
Closest name: Black Orchid (#525463)Relative luminance 0.087

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#5e5b50

#505a5e · #54505e

#5e5053 · #535e50

Split-complementary

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#5e5450 · #5a5e50

#5e505a · #5e5b50 · #505e54

Contrast

#50535e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.66:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.74:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #717584 as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #9497a4 as the text (7.22:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #c7c7c7 (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #f5f5f5 (7.03:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #50535e 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

#50535e reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #50535e
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #50535e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/50535e-9ca0c4-df7a4e-221f2d-e9eff1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md