Nursery
Open in tool →Pastel coral, sky and butter — soft enough for a newborn brand, with warm brown text instead of harsh black.
Color
#523f33
#523f33
hex
#523f33rgb
rgb(82, 63, 51)hsl
hsl(23, 23%, 26%)oklch
oklch(0.385 0.033 53.8)Closest name: Taupe (#483c32)Relative luminance 0.0559
Colors that go with #523f33
Teal, Steel Blue 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.
Teal #008080
split-complementshippedTeal is a split-complement of #523f33: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Steel Blue #4682b4
complementaryshippedSteel Blue sits directly opposite #523f33 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped7 real palettes, including Dunkin''s brand system and Jeep's brand system put Blue beside #523f33, as the supporting colour.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Nursery and Garden Wedding put Blush Pink beside #523f33, as the lead colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Bramble and Darkroom put Champagne beside #523f33, as the text colour against it.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #523f33: 5 real palettes, including Notion's brand system and Bramble.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #523f33 in 8 real palettes, including Dunkin''s brand system and Burger King's brand system, as the accent.
Cream #fffdd0
neutralCream is the surface #523f33 wants: a warm off-white that shares its undertone, so #523f33 reads softer on it than on pure white.
Real palettes that use #523f33
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #523f33 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 9.92:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.12:1 | fail | fail | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #523f33 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
#523f33 reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #523f33
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #523f33 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/523f33-c4b09c-62cbc0-2d2b1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md