Color

#523f38

#523f38
hex#523f38
rgbrgb(82, 63, 56)
hslhsl(16, 19%, 27%)
oklchoklch(0.386 0.029 41.2)
Closest name: Taupe (#483c32)Relative luminance 0.0563

Colors that go with #523f38

Blue, Blush Pink and Champagne 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 #523f38

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#384b52

#52383e · #524c38

#38523f · #3f3852

Split-complementary

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#38524c · #383e52

#3e5238 · #384b52 · #4c3852

Contrast

#523f38 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
9.87:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.13:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8f6d61 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #ac9086 as the text (7.09:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #b0b0b0 (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #dbdbdb (7.13:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #523f38 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

#523f38 reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #523f38
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 #523f38 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/523f38-c4ab9c-62cbb4-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md