Color

#5b5e50

#5b5e50
hex#5b5e50
rgbrgb(91, 94, 80)
hslhsl(73, 8%, 34%)
oklchoklch(0.475 0.022 117.1)
Closest name: Black Forest (#5e6354)Relative luminance 0.1081

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#53505e

#5e5a50 · #545e50

#505b5e · #5e505b

Split-complementary

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#50545e · #5a505e

#505e5a · #53505e · #5e5054

Contrast

#5b5e50 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
6.64:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #55584b as the text (7.28:1)
Aaon black
3.16:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #737665 as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #949886 as the text (7.09:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #d6d6d6 (4.57:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #5b5e50 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

#5b5e50 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #5b5e50
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 #5b5e50 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/5b5e50-b5bea2-4e75df-242d1f-f1efe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md