Color
#52756b
#52756brgb(82, 117, 107)hsl(163, 18%, 39%)oklch(0.533 0.043 174.9)Colors that go with #52756b
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 #52756b: 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 #52756b, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #52756b: 7 real palettes, including Riverbed and Clay & Linen, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #52756b in 8 real palettes, including Gemstone and Five Guys's brand system, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #52756b: 10 real palettes, including Campus and Intel's brand system, as the lead colour.
Firebrick #b22222
shippedDesigners have shipped Firebrick with #52756b: 4 real palettes, including Newsprint and Fireside, as the lead colour.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #52756b in 7 real palettes, including Mid-Century and Sapphire & Gold, as the accent.
Rose Gold #b76e79
complementaryRose Gold sits directly opposite #52756b 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 #52756b
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #52756b as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.1:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 4.12:1 | 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 #52756b 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 #52756b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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