Color

#545260

#545260
hex#545260
rgbrgb(84, 82, 96)
hslhsl(249, 8%, 35%)
oklchoklch(0.446 0.023 292)
Closest name: Black Orchid (#525463)Relative luminance 0.0876

Colors that go with #545260

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 #545260

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#5e6052

#525760 · #5b5260

#605452 · #526054

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#605b52 · #576052

#605257 · #5e6052 · #52605b

Contrast

#545260 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.63:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.75:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #767387 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #9694a4 as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #c7c7c7 (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #f7f7f7 (7.12:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #545260 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

#545260 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #545260
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 #545260 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/545260-a79cc4-dfae4e-271f2d-e9ecf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md