Color
#526f5f
#526f5frgb(82, 111, 95)hsl(147, 15%, 38%)oklch(0.514 0.042 160.3)Colors that go with #526f5f
Charcoal, 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #526f5f: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Forest Floor and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #526f5f, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #526f5f: 7 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Riverbed, as the lead colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #526f5f in 7 real palettes, including Gemstone and Five Guys's brand system, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #526f5f: 9 real palettes, including Intel's brand system and Jack Daniel's's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #526f5f in 5 real palettes, including Mid-Century and Fireside, as the accent.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
shippedMedium Sea Green is paired with #526f5f in 4 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Indigo SaaS, as the lead colour.
Rose Gold #b76e79
complementaryRose Gold sits directly opposite #526f5f on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #526f5f
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #526f5f as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.53:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.8:1 | 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 #526f5f as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
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 #526f5f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/526f5f-a2beb2-d059d4-1f2d2c-eaf1e9?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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