Color

#55504a

#55504a
hex#55504a
rgbrgb(85, 80, 74)
hslhsl(33, 7%, 31%)
oklchoklch(0.434 0.012 72.5)
Closest name: All Nighter (#455454)Relative luminance 0.0816

Colors that go with #55504a

Blue, Champagne and Copper 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 #55504a

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#4a4e55

#554a4a · #54554a

#4a5550 · #504a55

Split-complementary

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#4a5455 · #4a4a55

#4a554a · #4a4e55 · #554a54

Contrast

#55504a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.98:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.63:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7b746b as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #9b958c as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #c4c4c4 (4.57:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #f2f2f2 (7.13:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #55504a 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

#55504a reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #55504a
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 #55504a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/55504a-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md