Color

#524243

#524243
hex#524243
rgbrgb(82, 66, 67)
hslhsl(356, 11%, 29%)
oklchoklch(0.396 0.022 13.9)
Closest name: Black Magic (#4f4554)Relative luminance 0.061

Colors that go with #524243

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 #524243

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#425251

#52424b · #524942

#435242 · #424352

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#425249 · #424b52

#4b5242 · #425251 · #494252

Contrast

#524243 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
9.46:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.22:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8b6f71 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #a69192 as the text (7.09:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #b3b3b3 (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #dedede (7.03:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #524243 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

#524243 reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #524243
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 #524243 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/524243-c49e9c-62cb91-2d241f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md