Color

#55565e

#55565e
hex#55565e
rgbrgb(85, 86, 94)
hslhsl(233, 5%, 35%)
oklchoklch(0.455 0.013 280.2)
Closest name: Blackwater (#545663)Relative luminance 0.094

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#5e5d55

#555a5e · #58555e

#5e5556 · #565e55

Split-complementary

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#5e5855 · #5a5e55

#5e555a · #5e5d55 · #555e58

Contrast

#55565e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.29:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.88:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #747681 as the text (4.65:1)
  • AAA: use #94959e as the text (7.05:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #cccccc (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #fcfcfc (7.11:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #55565e 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

#55565e reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #55565e
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 #55565e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/55565e-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md