Color

#656161

#656161
hex#656161
rgbrgb(101, 97, 97)
hslhsl(0, 2%, 39%)
oklchoklch(0.496 0.005 17.3)
Closest name: Blindfolded (#5a5e61)Relative luminance 0.1218

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#616565

#656163 · #656361

#616561 · #616165

Split-complementary

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#616563 · #616365

#636561 · #616565 · #636165

Contrast

#656161 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
6.11:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #5b5757 as the text (7.13:1)
Aaon black
3.44:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #7a7575 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #999494 as the text (7.02:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #dedede (4.54:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #656161 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

#656161 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #656161
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 #656161 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/656161-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md