Color

#523d5c

#523d5c
hex#523d5c
rgbrgb(82, 61, 92)
hslhsl(281, 20%, 30%)
oklchoklch(0.396 0.057 314.6)
Closest name: Long Passionate Night (#5b365e)Relative luminance 0.059

Colors that go with #523d5c

Sea Green, Blue and Blush Pink 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#475c3d

#433d5c · #5c3d56

#5c523d · #3d5c52

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#565c3d · #3d5c43

#5c433d · #475c3d · #3d565c

Contrast

#523d5c as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
9.63:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.18:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8b699b as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #a88eb4 as the text (7.19:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #b3b3b3 (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #dedede (7.16:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #523d5c 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

#523d5c reads as cool, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #523d5c
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 #523d5c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/523d5c-ba9fc1-b6cb62-2d1f2c-ebe9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md