Color

#512a2f

#512a2f
hex#512a2f
rgbrgb(81, 42, 47)
hslhsl(352, 32%, 24%)
oklchoklch(0.338 0.058 12.5)
Closest name: Brown Coffee (#4a2c2a)Relative luminance 0.0361

Colors that go with #512a2f

Dark Olive 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

Open in tool →

#2a514c

#512a42 · #51382a

#2f512a · #2a2f51

Split-complementary

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#2a5138 · #2a4251

#42512a · #2a514c · #382a51

Contrast

#512a2f as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
12.19:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.72:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #ac5d68 as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #c1868e as the text (7.07:1)
  • 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 #512a2f 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

#512a2f reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #512a2f
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 #512a2f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/512a2f-c49c9d-62cb8a-2d231f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md