Color

#523c2d

#523c2d
hex#523c2d
rgbrgb(82, 60, 45)
hslhsl(24, 29%, 25%)
oklchoklch(0.376 0.039 55.5)
Closest name: Taupe (#483c32)Relative luminance 0.0522

Colors that go with #523c2d

Dark Olive Green, Teal 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 #523c2d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#2d4352

#522d31 · #524f2d

#2d523c · #3c2d52

Split-complementary

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#2d524f · #2d3152

#31522d · #2d4352 · #4f2d52

Contrast

#523c2d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
10.28:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.04:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #946c51 as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #b38e75 as the text (7.04:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #adadad (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #d6d6d6 (7.07:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #523c2d 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

#523c2d reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #523c2d
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 #523c2d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/523c2d-c4b19c-62cbc2-2d2b1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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