Color

#5b4d52

#5b4d52
hex#5b4d52
rgbrgb(91, 77, 82)
hslhsl(339, 8%, 33%)
oklchoklch(0.436 0.02 354.4)
Closest name: Black Orchid (#525463)Relative luminance 0.0814

Colors that go with #5b4d52

Champagne, Copper and Denim 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 #5b4d52

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#4d5b56

#5b4d59 · #5b4f4d

#525b4d · #4d525b

Split-complementary

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#4d5b4f · #4d595b

#595b4d · #4d5b56 · #4f4d5b

Contrast

#5b4d52 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.99:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.63:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #847177 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #a19197 as the text (7.01:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #c4c4c4 (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #f0f0f0 (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 #5b4d52 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

#5b4d52 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #5b4d52
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 #5b4d52 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/5b4d52-c49ca5-62cb74-2d211f-f1e9f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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