Color

#515a5d

#515a5d
hex#515a5d
rgbrgb(81, 90, 93)
hslhsl(195, 7%, 34%)
oklchoklch(0.461 0.012 219.7)
Closest name: Blackwater (#545663)Relative luminance 0.0985

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#5d5451

#515d5a · #51545d

#5d515a · #5a5d51

Split-complementary

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#5d5154 · #5d5a51

#5a515d · #5d5451 · #545d51

Contrast

#515a5d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.07:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.97:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6b777b as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #8c989b as the text (7.08:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #cfcfcf (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #ffffff (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 #515a5d 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

#515a5d reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #515a5d
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 #515a5d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/515a5d-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md