Color
#516d31
#516d31rgb(81, 109, 49)hsl(88, 38%, 31%)oklch(0.498 0.093 129.9)Colors that go with #516d31
Charcoal, Champagne and Copper 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #516d31: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Forest Floor and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #516d31, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #516d31: 4 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Riverbed, as the lead colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #516d31 in 5 real palettes, including Five Guys's brand system and Netflix's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #516d31: 5 real palettes, including Intel's brand system and Jack Daniel's's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Rust #b7410e
shippedRust shows up next to #516d31 in 4 real palettes, including Magazine Ochre and Harvest, as the lead colour.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #516d31: 8 real palettes, including Olive Grove and Forest Floor, as the supporting colour.
Dark Orchid #9932cc
complementaryDark Orchid sits directly opposite #516d31 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #516d31
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #516d31 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.86:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.58:1 | fail | pass | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #516d31 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #516d31 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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