Color

#535161

#535161
hex#535161
rgbrgb(83, 81, 97)
hslhsl(248, 9%, 35%)
oklchoklch(0.443 0.026 291)
Closest name: Black Orchid (#525463)Relative luminance 0.0859

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#5f6151

#515761 · #5b5161

#615351 · #516153

Split-complementary

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#615b51 · #576151

#615157 · #5f6151 · #51615b

Contrast

#535161 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.73:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.72:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #757288 as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #9895a7 as the text (7.19:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #c7c7c7 (4.57:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #f5f5f5 (7.09:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #535161 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

#535161 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #535161
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #535161 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/535161-a69cc4-dfac4e-271f2d-e9ecf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md