Color

#525655

#525655
hex#525655
rgbrgb(82, 86, 85)
hslhsl(165, 2%, 33%)
oklchoklch(0.449 0.005 179.5)
Closest name: All Nighter (#455454)Relative luminance 0.0911

Colors that go with #525655

Blue, Blush Pink 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

Open in tool →

#565253

#525653 · #525556

#555256 · #565552

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#565255 · #565352

#535256 · #565253 · #555652

Contrast

#525655 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.44:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.82:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #737876 as the text (4.68:1)
  • AAA: use #929695 as the text (7.02:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #cccccc (4.64:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #fafafa (7.13:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #525655 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

#525655 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #525655
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 #525655 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/525655-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md