Color

#54525b

#54525b
hex#54525b
rgbrgb(84, 82, 91)
hslhsl(253, 5%, 34%)
oklchoklch(0.444 0.015 296)
Closest name: Black Orchid (#525463)Relative luminance 0.0867

Colors that go with #54525b

Blue, 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.

Real palettes that use #54525b

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#595b52

#52555b · #59525b

#5b5452 · #525b54

Split-complementary

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#5b5952 · #555b52

#5b5255 · #595b52 · #525b59

Contrast

#54525b as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.68:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.73:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #777481 as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #96949e as the text (7.03:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #c7c7c7 (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #f5f5f5 (7.04:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #54525b 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

#54525b reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #54525b
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 #54525b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/54525b-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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