Color

#523d3e

#523d3e
hex#523d3e
rgbrgb(82, 61, 62)
hslhsl(357, 15%, 28%)
oklchoklch(0.383 0.03 15.4)
Closest name: Black Truffle (#463d3e)Relative luminance 0.0548

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#3d5251

#523d48 · #52463d

#3e523d · #3d3e52

Split-complementary

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#3d5246 · #3d4852

#48523d · #3d5251 · #463d52

Contrast

#523d3e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
10.02:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.1:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #936c6e as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #ad9091 as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #b0b0b0 (4.62:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #d9d9d9 (7.1:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #523d3e as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#523d3e reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #523d3e
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #523d3e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/523d3e-c49f9c-62cb93-2d251f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md