Color

#524138

#524138
hex#524138
rgbrgb(82, 65, 56)
hslhsl(21, 19%, 27%)
oklchoklch(0.391 0.028 49.4)
Closest name: Taupe (#483c32)Relative luminance 0.0586

Colors that go with #524138

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 #524138

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#384952

#52383c · #524e38

#385241 · #413852

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#38524e · #383c52

#3c5238 · #384952 · #4e3852

Contrast

#524138 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
9.67:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.17:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8c6f5f as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #aa9083 as the text (7.03:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #b3b3b3 (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #dedede (7.19:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #524138 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

#524138 reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #524138
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 #524138 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/524138-c4af9c-62cbbd-2d2a1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md