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Color
#5a565d
#5a565d
hex
#5a565drgb
rgb(90, 86, 93)hsl
hsl(274, 4%, 35%)oklch
oklch(0.459 0.012 311)Closest name: Blackwater (#545663)Relative luminance 0.0962
Colors that go with #5a565d
Blush Pink, Cadet Blue and Champagne 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.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Blush and Nursery put Blush Pink beside #5a565d, as the supporting colour.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #5a565d: 4 real palettes, including Dusk and Open House, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Darkroom and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #5a565d, as the surface under it.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #5a565d: 6 real palettes, including Desert Road and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Dark Goldenrod #b8860b
shipped4 real palettes, including Puma's brand system and Cider put Dark Goldenrod beside #5a565d, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #5a565d: 7 real palettes, including HP's brand system and The New York Times's brand system, as the accent.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #5a565d in 5 real palettes, including Fireside and Mid-Century, as the accent.
White Smoke #f5f5f5
neutralWhite Smoke is the near-white surface #5a565d was made for — maximum legibility with no colour cast to argue with.
Real palettes that use #5a565d
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #5a565d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 7.18:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.92:1 | fail | fail | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #5a565d 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
#5a565d reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #5a565d
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #5a565d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/5a565d-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md