Color

#55575e

#55575e
hex#55575e
rgbrgb(85, 87, 94)
hslhsl(227, 5%, 35%)
oklchoklch(0.457 0.012 273.2)
Closest name: Blackwater (#545663)Relative luminance 0.0956

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#5e5c55

#555b5e · #57555e

#5e5557 · #575e55

Split-complementary

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#5e5755 · #5b5e55

#5e555b · #5e5c55 · #555e57

Contrast

#55575e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.21:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.91:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #72747e as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #94969e as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #cfcfcf (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #fcfcfc (7.03:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #55575e 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

#55575e reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #55575e
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 #55575e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/55575e-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md