Color

#524d60

#524d60
hex#524d60
rgbrgb(82, 77, 96)
hslhsl(256, 11%, 34%)
oklchoklch(0.432 0.032 297.1)
Closest name: Freefall (#565266)Relative luminance 0.0795

Colors that go with #524d60

Blue, Cadet Blue and Champagne 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.

Real palettes that use #524d60

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#5b604d

#4d5260 · #5c4d60

#60524d · #4d6052

Split-complementary

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#605c4d · #52604d

#604d52 · #5b604d · #4d605c

Contrast

#524d60 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
8.11:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.59:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #79718e as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #9993a9 as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #c2c2c2 (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #f0f0f0 (7.12:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #524d60 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

mcpConnect your agent — build around #524d60
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 #524d60 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/524d60-ab9cc4-dfbf4e-291f2d-e9ebf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md