Color

#5b5449

#5b5449
hex#5b5449
rgbrgb(91, 84, 73)
hslhsl(37, 11%, 32%)
oklchoklch(0.449 0.02 79.2)
Closest name: Bark (#5f5854)Relative luminance 0.0905

Colors that go with #5b5449

Blue, Blush Pink and Cadet Blue 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#49505b

#5b4b49 · #585b49

#495b54 · #54495b

Split-complementary

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#49585b · #4b495b

#495b4b · #49505b · #5b4958

Contrast

#5b5449 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.48:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.81:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7d7364 as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #9d9485 as the text (7.01:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #c9c9c9 (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #fafafa (7.16:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #5b5449 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

#5b5449 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #5b5449
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 #5b5449 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/5b5449-c4b99c-62bdcb-2c2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md