Color

#51595c

#51595c
hex#51595c
rgbrgb(81, 89, 92)
hslhsl(196, 6%, 34%)
oklchoklch(0.458 0.011 222.2)
Closest name: Blackwater (#545663)Relative luminance 0.0967

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#5c5451

#515c59 · #51545c

#5c5159 · #595c51

Split-complementary

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#5c5154 · #5c5951

#59515c · #5c5451 · #545c51

Contrast

#51595c as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.16:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.93:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6c767a as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #8d979a as the text (7.03:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #cfcfcf (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #ffffff (7.16:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #51595c 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

#51595c reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #51595c
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 #51595c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/51595c-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md