Color

#502e2b

#502e2b
hex#502e2b
rgbrgb(80, 46, 43)
hslhsl(5, 30%, 24%)
oklchoklch(0.343 0.051 25.5)
Closest name: Brown Coffee (#4a2c2a)Relative luminance 0.0383

Colors that go with #502e2b

Teal, Blush Pink and Burlywood 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 #502e2b

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#2b4c50

#502b3a · #50402b

#2b502e · #2e2b50

Split-complementary

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#2b5040 · #2b3a50

#3a502b · #2b4c50 · #402b50

Contrast

#502e2b as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
11.89:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.77:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #a8635d as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #bd8984 as the text (7.08:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #a1a1a1 (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #c7c7c7 (7.03:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #502e2b 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

#502e2b reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #502e2b
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 #502e2b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/502e2b-c4a49c-62cba1-2d261f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md