Color

#5a545f

#5a545f
hex#5a545f
rgbrgb(90, 84, 95)
hslhsl(273, 6%, 35%)
oklchoklch(0.456 0.019 309.9)
Closest name: Blackwater (#545663)Relative luminance 0.0934

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#595f54

#54545f · #5f545e

#5f5a54 · #545f5a

Split-complementary

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#5e5f54 · #545f54

#5f5454 · #595f54 · #545e5f

Contrast

#5a545f as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.32:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.87:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7b7382 as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #9a939f as the text (7.05:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #cccccc (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #fafafa (7.01:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #5a545f 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

#5a545f reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #5a545f
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 #5a545f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/5a545f-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md