Color

#525754

#525754
hex#525754
rgbrgb(82, 87, 84)
hslhsl(144, 3%, 33%)
oklchoklch(0.451 0.008 159.8)
Closest name: Bark (#5f5854)Relative luminance 0.0925

Colors that go with #525754

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 →

#575255

#525752 · #525756

#545257 · #575452

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#565257 · #575252

#525257 · #575255 · #575652

Contrast

#525754 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.37:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.85:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6f7672 as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #919793 as the text (7.05:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #cccccc (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #fafafa (7.06:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #525754 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

#525754 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #525754
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 #525754 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/525754-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md