Color

#565256

#565256
hex#565256
rgbrgb(86, 82, 86)
hslhsl(300, 2%, 33%)
oklchoklch(0.444 0.008 325.7)
Closest name: Black Orchid (#525463)Relative luminance 0.0868

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#525652

#545256 · #565254

#565652 · #525656

Split-complementary

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#545652 · #525654

#565452 · #525652 · #525456

Contrast

#565256 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.67:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.74:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #787378 as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #999499 as the text (7.05:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #c7c7c7 (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #f5f5f5 (7.04:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #565256 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

#565256 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #565256
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 #565256 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/565256-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md