Color

#53595f

#53595f
hex#53595f
rgbrgb(83, 89, 95)
hslhsl(210, 7%, 35%)
oklchoklch(0.461 0.012 248.1)
Closest name: Blackwater (#545663)Relative luminance 0.0981

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#5f5953

#535f5f · #53535f

#5f5359 · #595f53

Split-complementary

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#5f5353 · #5f5f53

#5f535f · #5f5953 · #535f53

Contrast

#53595f as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.09:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.96:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6f7880 as the text (4.67:1)
  • AAA: use #8f969e as the text (7.02:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #cfcfcf (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #ffffff (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 #53595f 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

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

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

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

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Machine-readable: color.md