Color

#555249

#555249
hex#555249
rgbrgb(85, 82, 73)
hslhsl(45, 8%, 31%)
oklchoklch(0.439 0.015 91.7)
Closest name: All Nighter (#455454)Relative luminance 0.0845

Colors that go with #555249

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 #555249

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#494c55

#554c49 · #525549

#495552 · #524955

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#495255 · #4c4955

#49554c · #494c55 · #554952

Contrast

#555249 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.81:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.69:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #797567 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #9a9689 as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #c7c7c7 (4.62:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #f5f5f5 (7.16:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #555249 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

#555249 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #555249
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 #555249 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/555249-c4be9c-62afcb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md