Color

#51525d

#51525d
hex#51525d
rgbrgb(81, 82, 93)
hslhsl(235, 7%, 34%)
oklchoklch(0.442 0.018 281.5)
Closest name: Black Orchid (#525463)Relative luminance 0.0857

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#5d5c51

#51585d · #56515d

#5d5152 · #525d51

Split-complementary

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#5d5651 · #585d51

#5d5158 · #5d5c51 · #515d56

Contrast

#51525d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.74:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.71:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #747686 as the text (4.68:1)
  • AAA: use #9596a3 as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #c7c7c7 (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #f5f5f5 (7.1:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #51525d 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

#51525d reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #51525d
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 #51525d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/51525d-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md