Color

#523d2e

#523d2e
hex#523d2e
rgbrgb(82, 61, 46)
hslhsl(25, 28%, 25%)
oklchoklch(0.379 0.038 56.8)
Closest name: Taupe (#483c32)Relative luminance 0.0533

Colors that go with #523d2e

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 #523d2e

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#2e4352

#522e31 · #524f2e

#2e523d · #3d2e52

Split-complementary

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#2e524f · #2e3152

#31522e · #2e4352 · #4f2e52

Contrast

#523d2e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
10.17:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.07:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #936d53 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #b28f76 as the text (7.08:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #adadad (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #d9d9d9 (7.2:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #523d2e 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

#523d2e reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #523d2e
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 #523d2e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/523d2e-c4b19c-62cbc4-2d2b1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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