Color

#523d46

#523d46
hex#523d46
rgbrgb(82, 61, 70)
hslhsl(334, 15%, 28%)
oklchoklch(0.386 0.032 351.2)
Closest name: Black Truffle (#463d3e)Relative luminance 0.0557

Colors that go with #523d46

Sea Green, Teal and 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 #523d46

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#3d5249

#523d51 · #523e3d

#46523d · #3d4652

Split-complementary

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#3d523e · #3d5152

#51523d · #3d5249 · #3e3d52

Contrast

#523d46 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
9.93:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.11:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #906a7a as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #ad909c as the text (7.25:1)
  • 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 #523d46 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

#523d46 reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #523d46
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 #523d46 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/523d46-c49ca9-62cb6b-2d1f1f-f1e9f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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