Color

#523b2e

#523b2e
hex#523b2e
rgbrgb(82, 59, 46)
hslhsl(22, 28%, 25%)
oklchoklch(0.374 0.039 50.6)
Closest name: Taupe (#483c32)Relative luminance 0.0512

Colors that go with #523b2e

Teal, Blue and Blush Pink 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 #523b2e

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#2e4552

#522e33 · #524d2e

#2e523b · #3b2e52

Split-complementary

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#2e524d · #2e3352

#33522e · #2e4552 · #4d2e52

Contrast

#523b2e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
10.38:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.02:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #966d54 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #b48f79 as the text (7.15:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #ababab (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #d4d4d4 (7:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #523b2e 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

#523b2e reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #523b2e
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 #523b2e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/523b2e-c4af9c-62cbbf-2d2a1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md