Color

#524a1e

#524a1e
hex#524a1e
rgbrgb(82, 74, 30)
hslhsl(51, 46%, 22%)
oklchoklch(0.407 0.063 99.1)
Closest name: Alligator Gladiator (#444411)Relative luminance 0.0679

Colors that go with #524a1e

Teal, Blue 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 #524a1e

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#1e2652

#52301e · #40521e

#1e524a · #4a1e52

Split-complementary

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#1e4052 · #301e52

#1e5230 · #1e2652 · #521e40

Contrast

#524a1e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
8.91:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.36:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #827630 as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #a8983e as the text (7.23:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #bababa (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #e6e6e6 (7.14:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #524a1e 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

#524a1e reads as warm, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #524a1e
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 #524a1e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/524a1e-c4c29c-4eaadf-292d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md