Color

#502525

#502525
hex#502525
rgbrgb(80, 37, 37)
hslhsl(0, 37%, 23%)
oklchoklch(0.324 0.065 21.3)
Closest name: Bitter Chocolate (#4f2923)Relative luminance 0.0316

Colors that go with #502525

Charcoal, Sea Green and Sienna 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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#255050

#50253b · #503b25

#255025 · #252550

Split-complementary

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#25503b · #253b50

#3b5025 · #255050 · #3b2550

Contrast

#502525 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
12.86:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.63:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #b35b5b as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #c78585 as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #999999 (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #c2c2c2 (7.22:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #502525 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

#502525 reads as warm, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #502525
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 #502525 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/502525-c4a19c-62cb98-2d251f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md