Color

#554d49

#554d49
hex#554d49
rgbrgb(85, 77, 73)
hslhsl(20, 8%, 31%)
oklchoklch(0.427 0.013 48.4)
Closest name: Armadillo (#484a46)Relative luminance 0.0772

Colors that go with #554d49

Copper, Powder Blue and Sage Green 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 #554d49

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#495155

#55494b · #555349

#49554d · #4d4955

Split-complementary

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#495553 · #494b55

#4b5549 · #495155 · #534955

Contrast

#554d49 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
8.25:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.54:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7f726c as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #9f948e as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #c2c2c2 (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #ededed (7.05:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #554d49 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

#554d49 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #554d49
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 #554d49 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/554d49-c4ae9c-62cbbb-2d2a1f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md