Color

#523960

#523960
hex#523960
rgbrgb(82, 57, 96)
hslhsl(278, 25%, 30%)
oklchoklch(0.39 0.071 312.8)
Closest name: Long Passionate Night (#5b365e)Relative luminance 0.0556

Colors that go with #523960

Blue, Copper and Crimson 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 →

#476039

#3e3960 · #60395b

#605239 · #396052

Split-complementary

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#5b6039 · #39603e

#603e39 · #476039 · #395b60

Contrast

#523960 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
9.94:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.11:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8d66a3 as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #a98cba as the text (7.15:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #b0b0b0 (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #d9d9d9 (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 #523960 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

#523960 reads as cool, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #523960
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 #523960 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/523960-ba9cc4-bbcb62-2d1f2c-ebe9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md