Color

#554e53

#554e53
hex#554e53
rgbrgb(85, 78, 83)
hslhsl(317, 4%, 32%)
oklchoklch(0.432 0.012 335.8)
Closest name: Black Orchid (#525463)Relative luminance 0.08

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#4e5550

#534e55 · #554e50

#53554e · #4e5355

Split-complementary

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#50554e · #4e5553

#55534e · #4e5550 · #4e5055

Contrast

#554e53 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
8.07:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.6:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7d737a as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #9d959b as the text (7.21:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #c2c2c2 (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #f0f0f0 (7.08:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #554e53 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

#554e53 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #554e53
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 #554e53 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/554e53-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md