Color

#512f31

#512f31
hex#512f31
rgbrgb(81, 47, 49)
hslhsl(356, 27%, 25%)
oklchoklch(0.348 0.05 16.2)
Closest name: Brown Coffee (#4a2c2a)Relative luminance 0.04

Colors that go with #512f31

Sea Green, Steel Blue and Teal 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 →

#2f514f

#512f42 · #513d2f

#31512f · #2f3151

Split-complementary

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#2f513d · #2f4251

#42512f · #2f514f · #3d2f51

Contrast

#512f31 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
11.66:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.8:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #a66468 as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #bc8a8e as the text (7.16:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #a1a1a1 (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #c9c9c9 (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 #512f31 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

#512f31 reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #512f31
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 #512f31 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/512f31-c49e9c-62cb91-2d241f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md