Color

#502b2c

#502b2c
hex#502b2c
rgbrgb(80, 43, 44)
hslhsl(358, 30%, 24%)
oklchoklch(0.337 0.055 18.7)
Closest name: Brown Coffee (#4a2c2a)Relative luminance 0.0362

Colors that go with #502b2c

Sea Green, Sienna and Steel 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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#2b504e

#502b3e · #503c2b

#2c502b · #2b2c50

Split-complementary

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#2b503c · #2b3e50

#3e502b · #2b504e · #3c2b50

Contrast

#502b2c as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
12.19:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.72:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #a96062 as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #bf8889 as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #9e9e9e (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #c7c7c7 (7.21:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #502b2c 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

#502b2c reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #502b2c
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 #502b2c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/502b2c-c49f9c-62cb95-2d251f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md