Color

#525656

#525656
hex#525656
rgbrgb(82, 86, 86)
hslhsl(180, 2%, 33%)
oklchoklch(0.45 0.005 197)
Closest name: All Nighter (#455454)Relative luminance 0.0912

Colors that go with #525656

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 →

#565252

#525654 · #525456

#565256 · #565652

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#565254 · #565452

#545256 · #565252 · #545652

Contrast

#525656 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.44:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.82:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #737878 as the text (4.69:1)
  • AAA: use #929696 as the text (7.03:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #cccccc (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #fafafa (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 #525656 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

#525656 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #525656
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 #525656 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/525656-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md