Color

#522a28

#522a28
hex#522a28
rgbrgb(82, 42, 40)
hslhsl(3, 34%, 24%)
oklchoklch(0.337 0.06 23.7)
Closest name: Bitter Chocolate (#4f2923)Relative luminance 0.036

Colors that go with #522a28

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.

Real palettes that use #522a28

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#285052

#52283b · #523f28

#28522a · #2a2852

Split-complementary

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#28523f · #283b52

#3b5228 · #285052 · #3f2852

Contrast

#522a28 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
12.21:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
1.72:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #ae5f5b as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #c28784 as the text (7.09:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #9e9e9e (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #c7c7c7 (7.22:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #522a28 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

#522a28 reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #522a28
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 #522a28 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/522a28-c4a39c-62cb9d-2d261f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md