Color

#524965

#524965
hex#524965
rgbrgb(82, 73, 101)
hslhsl(259, 16%, 34%)
oklchoklch(0.426 0.047 299.1)
Closest name: Haunted Candelabra (#57446a)Relative luminance 0.075

Colors that go with #524965

Teal, Blue and Cadet Blue 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#5c6549

#494e65 · #5f4965

#655249 · #496552

Split-complementary

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#655f49 · #4e6549

#65494e · #5c6549 · #49655f

Contrast

#524965 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
8.4:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.5:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7b6e96 as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #9b92b0 as the text (7.13:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #bfbfbf (4.57:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #ebebeb (7.05:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #524965 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

mcpConnect your agent — build around #524965
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 #524965 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/524965-ad9cc4-dfc74e-2a1f2d-e9ebf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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