Color

#5e5950

#5e5950
hex#5e5950
rgbrgb(94, 89, 80)
hslhsl(39, 8%, 34%)
oklchoklch(0.466 0.016 82.4)
Closest name: Bark (#5f5854)Relative luminance 0.101

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#50555e

#5e5250 · #5c5e50

#505e59 · #59505e

Split-complementary

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#505c5e · #52505e

#505e52 · #50555e · #5e505c

Contrast

#5e5950 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
6.95:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #5b564d as the text (7.28:1)
Aaon black
3.02:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #7c766a as the text (4.66:1)
  • AAA: use #9c968b as the text (7.15:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #d1d1d1 (4.55:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #5e5950 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

#5e5950 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #5e5950
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 #5e5950 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/5e5950-c4ba9c-62b9cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md