Color

#514d4f

#514d4f
hex#514d4f
rgbrgb(81, 77, 79)
hslhsl(330, 3%, 31%)
oklchoklch(0.425 0.006 345.5)
Closest name: Armadillo (#484a46)Relative luminance 0.0762

Colors that go with #514d4f

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 #514d4f

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#4d514f

#514d51 · #514d4d

#4f514d · #4d4f51

Split-complementary

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#4d514d · #4d5151

#51514d · #4d514f · #4d4d51

Contrast

#514d4f as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
8.32:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.52:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7b7478 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #9c9699 as the text (7.24:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #bfbfbf (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #ededed (7.11:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #514d4f 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

#514d4f reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #514d4f
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 #514d4f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/514d4f-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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