Color

#514d43

#514d43
hex#514d43
rgbrgb(81, 77, 67)
hslhsl(43, 9%, 29%)
oklchoklch(0.421 0.017 88.8)
Closest name: Armadillo (#484a46)Relative luminance 0.0746

Colors that go with #514d43

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 #514d43

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#434751

#514643 · #4e5143

#43514d · #4d4351

Split-complementary

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#434e51 · #464351

#435146 · #434751 · #51434e

Contrast

#514d43 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
8.43:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.49:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7a7566 as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #9b9687 as the text (7.11:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #bfbfbf (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #ebebeb (7.07:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #514d43 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

#514d43 reads as muted, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #514d43
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 #514d43 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/514d43-c4bd9c-62b2cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md