Color

#51535d

#51535d
hex#51535d
rgbrgb(81, 83, 93)
hslhsl(230, 7%, 34%)
oklchoklch(0.444 0.017 276.7)
Closest name: Black Orchid (#525463)Relative luminance 0.0873

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#5d5b51

#51595d · #55515d

#5d5153 · #535d51

Split-complementary

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#5d5551 · #595d51

#5d5159 · #5d5b51 · #515d55

Contrast

#51535d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.65:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.75:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #727583 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #9597a3 as the text (7.23:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #c7c7c7 (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #f5f5f5 (7.02:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #51535d 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

#51535d reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #51535d
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 #51535d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/51535d-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md