Color

#523d4e

#523d4e
hex#523d4e
rgbrgb(82, 61, 78)
hslhsl(311, 15%, 28%)
oklchoklch(0.389 0.04 333.1)
Closest name: Black Magic (#4f4554)Relative luminance 0.0568

Colors that go with #523d4e

Sea Green, Blush Pink and Cadet 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 #523d4e

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#3d5241

#4b3d52 · #523d43

#4e523d · #3d4e52

Split-complementary

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#43523d · #3d524b

#524b3d · #3d5241 · #3d4352

Contrast

#523d4e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
9.83:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.14:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #906a89 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #aa8da5 as the text (7.06:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #b0b0b0 (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #dbdbdb (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 #523d4e 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

#523d4e reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #523d4e
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 #523d4e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/523d4e-c19fb7-82cb62-2d1f25-efe9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md