Undergrowth
Open in tool →Fern and lichen with a fungus orange on a fir-black — the forest floor at dusk, as a dark theme.
Color
#526657
#526657
hex
#526657rgb
rgb(82, 102, 87)hsl
hsl(135, 11%, 36%)oklch
oklch(0.489 0.034 152.6)Closest name: Black Forest (#5e6354)Relative luminance 0.1198
Colors that go with #526657
Charcoal, Blush Pink and Cadet Blue 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #526657: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Graphite Mono and Blush put Blush Pink beside #526657, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #526657: 4 real palettes, including Alpine and Dusk, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including BrandSweets's brand system and Darkroom put Champagne beside #526657.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #526657: 6 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Desert Road, as the lead colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #526657 in 8 real palettes, including Gemstone and Five Guys's brand system, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #526657: 7 real palettes, including HP's brand system and Campus, as the accent.
Slate Blue #6a5acd
split-complementshippedSlate Blue is a split-complement of #526657: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #526657
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #526657 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.18:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 3.4:1 | fail | pass | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #526657 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
mcpConnect your agent — build around #526657
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #526657 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/526657-a2beac-b759d4-1f2d29-ebf1e9?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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