Color

#52282d

#52282d
hex#52282d
rgbrgb(82, 40, 45)
hslhsl(353, 34%, 24%)
oklchoklch(0.335 0.063 13.5)
Closest name: Bitter Chocolate (#4f2923)Relative luminance 0.035

Colors that go with #52282d

Sea 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 →

#28524d

#522842 · #523828

#2d5228 · #282d52

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#285238 · #284252

#425228 · #28524d · #382852

Contrast

#52282d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
12.35:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.7:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #b05e68 as the text (4.65:1)
  • AAA: use #c4878e as the text (7.2:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #9e9e9e (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #c4c4c4 (7.08:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #52282d 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

#52282d reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #52282d
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 #52282d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/52282d-c49c9c-62cb8c-2d241f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md