Color

#514e38

#514e38
hex#514e38
rgbrgb(81, 78, 56)
hslhsl(53, 18%, 27%)
oklchoklch(0.42 0.035 101.2)
Closest name: Broccoli Green (#4b5338)Relative luminance 0.0748

Colors that go with #514e38

Teal, Blue and Champagne 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 #514e38

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#383b51

#514238 · #485138

#38514e · #4e3851

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#384851 · #423851

#385142 · #383b51 · #513848

Contrast

#514e38 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
8.41:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.5:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7b7756 as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #9d9872 as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #bfbfbf (4.57:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #ebebeb (7.06:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #514e38 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

#514e38 reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #514e38
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 #514e38 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/514e38-c4c49c-4ea5df-292d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md