Color

#53595a

#53595a
hex#53595a
rgbrgb(83, 89, 90)
hslhsl(189, 4%, 34%)
oklchoklch(0.459 0.008 208.8)
Closest name: Bark (#5f5854)Relative luminance 0.0972

Colors that go with #53595a

Blush Pink, 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#5a5453

#535a58 · #53565a

#5a5359 · #595a53

Split-complementary

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#5a5356 · #5a5853

#58535a · #5a5453 · #565a53

Contrast

#53595a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.13:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.94:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6e7677 as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #909798 as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #cfcfcf (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #ffffff (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 #53595a 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

#53595a reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #53595a
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 #53595a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/53595a-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md