Color

#502e2a

#502e2a
hex#502e2a
rgbrgb(80, 46, 42)
hslhsl(6, 31%, 24%)
oklchoklch(0.343 0.051 27.2)
Closest name: Brown Coffee (#4a2c2a)Relative luminance 0.0383

Colors that go with #502e2a

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.

Real palettes that use #502e2a

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#2a4c50

#502a39 · #50412a

#2a502e · #2e2a50

Split-complementary

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#2a5041 · #2a3950

#39502a · #2a4c50 · #412a50

Contrast

#502e2a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
11.9:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.77:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #a9635b as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #be8983 as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #a1a1a1 (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #c7c7c7 (7.04:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #502e2a 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

#502e2a reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #502e2a
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 #502e2a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/502e2a-c4a59c-62cba3-2d271f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md