Color

#55545f

#55545f
hex#55545f
rgbrgb(85, 84, 95)
hslhsl(245, 6%, 35%)
oklchoklch(0.451 0.018 289.8)
Closest name: Blackwater (#545663)Relative luminance 0.091

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#5e5f54

#54585f · #5a545f

#5f5554 · #545f55

Split-complementary

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#5f5a54 · #585f54

#5f5458 · #5e5f54 · #545f5a

Contrast

#55545f as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.45:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.82:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #747382 as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #9796a2 as the text (7.2:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #cccccc (4.64:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #fafafa (7.14:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #55545f 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

#55545f reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #55545f
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 #55545f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/55545f-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md