Color
#525142
#525142rgb(82, 81, 66)hsl(56, 11%, 29%)oklch(0.431 0.024 104.2)Colors that go with #525142
Blue, Champagne and Copper 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.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Jeep's brand system and Warp's brand system put Blue beside #525142, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Darkroom and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #525142, as the surface under it.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #525142: 6 real palettes, including Desert Road and Clay & Linen, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #525142: 4 real palettes, including HP's brand system and Hinge's brand system, as the accent.
Orange Red #ff4500
shippedOrange Red is paired with #525142 in 4 real palettes, including Neon's brand system and Tumblr's brand system, as the accent.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #525142: 4 real palettes, including Nursery and Stone, as the supporting colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #525142 in 6 real palettes, including Console Light and Subaru's brand system, as the lead colour.
White Smoke #f5f5f5
neutralWhite Smoke is the near-white surface #525142 was made for — maximum legibility with no colour cast to argue with.
Real palettes that use #525142
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #525142 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 8.03:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.61:1 | 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 #525142 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
#525142 reads as warm, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #525142 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/525142-bdbea2-4e9edf-282d1f-f1ede9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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