Color

#504b16

#504b16
hex#504b16
rgbrgb(80, 75, 22)
hslhsl(55, 57%, 20%)
oklchoklch(0.406 0.072 103.9)
Closest name: Alligator Gladiator (#444411)Relative luminance 0.068

Colors that go with #504b16

Blue, Copper and Crimson 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 #504b16

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#161b50

#502e16 · #385016

#16504b · #4b1650

Split-complementary

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#163850 · #2e1650

#16502e · #161b50 · #501638

Contrast

#504b16 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
8.9:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.36:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #807823 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #a49a2d as the text (7.24:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #bababa (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #e6e6e6 (7.13:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #504b16 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

#504b16 reads as warm, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #504b16
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 #504b16 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/504b16-bdbea2-4ea0df-282d1f-f1ede9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md