Color

#5a494b

#5a494b
hex#5a494b
rgbrgb(90, 73, 75)
hslhsl(353, 10%, 32%)
oklchoklch(0.424 0.023 10.1)
Closest name: Black Magic (#4f4554)Relative luminance 0.0745

Colors that go with #5a494b

Blue, Champagne and Copper 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 #5a494b

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#495a58

#5a4954 · #5a5049

#4b5a49 · #494b5a

Split-complementary

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#495a50 · #49545a

#545a49 · #495a58 · #50495a

Contrast

#5a494b as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
8.44:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.49:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #897073 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #a59294 as the text (7.14:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #bfbfbf (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #ebebeb (7.08:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #5a494b 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

#5a494b reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #5a494b
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 #5a494b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/5a494b-c49c9c-62cb8c-2d241f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md